momliness

English

Noun

momliness (uncountable)

The quality of being momly.
- 1982 August 1, Karen Osman, “Cleanliness is next to momliness”, in The Sunday Pantagraph, Bloomington–Normal, Ill., page Li3:
  Cleanliness is next to momliness
- 1994 May 11, “Butte mom, recipe picked for Seattle diner’s calendar”, in The Montana Standard, volume 118, number 344, page C1:
  “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.
- 2007, Martin Sanger, edited by John Kenneth Press, Prison Wars: An Inside Account of How the Apocalypse Happened, Social Books:
  But she’s always been a bit of a devil, beneath her momliness.
- 2010, Jane Mendle, My Ultimate Sister Disaster, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, →ISBN, page 92:
  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.
- 2016 February 10, Kathleen Parker, “Moving beyond girl power”, in Longview News-Journal, Longview, Tex., page 4A:
  [Hillary] Clinton, ever the adult in the room, may be doomed by her own sober “momliness.”
- 2021, Carrie Thorne, A Day Late (Foothills Romance Series; 3), Thorny Books, page 69:
  Having already raised four of her own children that had grown, she’d shared her momliness with Haley, Ryder, and him.