maternalistic

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   showing maternal instincts

   Similarmaternal

Questions about maternalistic

What does maternalistic mean?

maternalistic means "showing maternal instincts".

How many syllables are in maternalistic?

maternalistic has 5 syllables: ma-ter-na-li-stic. The stress falls on "li".

Is maternalistic a common word?

maternalistic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.