Aunting

Quick meaning: Aunting is a noun meaning (zoology) The provision of maternal care by another, allomothering.

Meaning

(zoology) The provision of maternal care by another, allomothering.

More Meanings

1. (sociology) The interactions arising from an aunt or aunt-like relationship

Example Sentences

Such kidnapping rarely results in serious injury or death (i.e. 'aunting-to-death') with infant patas monkeys.

Aunting speaks to the ways in which women can influence the children in their lives – and I don’t believe it is limited to biological aunties.

I found that aunting, or the care and nurture of children by aunts and great-aunts, is gendered and invisible work that, at the most basic level, salvages children’s lives.

The aunting behavior in a captive group of 22 squirrel monkeys containing three infants was done in terms of the age/sex classification of those animals involved. The time course of the aunting phenomena and the type and intensity of the interactions between the mothers and the aunts were recorded.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include auntie, aunty, uncle, nana, lady, nanny.

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