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antimaternal

adj

Etymology

From anti- + maternal.

  1. derived from *méh₂tēr✻ — “mother”
  2. derived from māternus — “maternal; related to the mother or her side of the family”
  3. derived from māternālis — “maternal”
  4. derived from maternel — “maternal”
  5. inherited from maternal
  6. formed as antimaternal — “anti- + maternal”

Definitions

  1. Having characteristics opposite those associated with maternity

    • 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.

  2. Pertaining to an immune response against the mother

    • an antimaternal antibody

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for antimaternal. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA