What does momliness mean?
Momliness means (informal) The quality of being momly..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(informal) The quality of being momly..
Cleanliness is next to momliness
“The recipes are chosen not only for taste, but for their ‘momliness,’ a quality they say they can’t define, but everybody knows what it is — usually reflected in a favorite saying that they put on the page with the dates,” Dianne [Shiner] wrote in a letter to The Montana Standard.
But she’s always been a bit of a devil, beneath her momliness.
Normally, I ached for the everyday things that had changed since Mom left—[…]. But as I stormed away from Zooey, I couldn’t stop myself from feeling rotten because she was going to miss the special Momliness that should have come along with this.
[Hillary] Clinton, ever the adult in the room, may be doomed by her own sober “momliness.”
Having already raised four of her own children that had grown, she’d shared her momliness with Haley, Ryder, and him.
Use momliness when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Momliness means (informal) The quality of being momly..
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Cleanliness is next to momliness
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