paternal quality

English Thesaurus

1. the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father (noun.attribute)

hypernym	:	parental quality,
definition	:	a quality appropriate to a parent (noun.attribute)

attribute	:	paternal,
definition	:	characteristic of a father (adj.all)

derivation	:	fatherlike, fatherly,
definition	:	like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective (adj.all)

derivation	:	fatherlike, fatherly,
definition	:	like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective (adj.all)