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Maternity vs Antimaternal - What's the difference?

maternity | antimaternal |

As a noun maternity

is the state of being a mother; motherhood.

As an adjective antimaternal is

having characteristics opposite those associated with maternity.

maternity

English

Noun

  • The state of being a mother; motherhood.
  • The state of being pregnant; pregnancy.
  • A ward or department in a hospital in which babies are born.

    • Synonyms

    * (ward) (l)

    Antonyms

    * (l) (with respect to gender)

    Related terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l), (l)

    antimaternal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having characteristics opposite those associated with maternity
  • * {{quote-book, 2007, Jill Rudd & Val Gough, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Optimist Reformer citation
    • , passage=The eponymous "Unnatural Mother," for one, certainly seems to show an antimaternal rather than a maternal reflex when she rapidly and automatically acts to save her town rather than her own child.}}
  • (immunology) Pertaining to an immune response against the mother
    • an antimaternal antibody