Thesaurus results for MATERNITY

maternity

noun

mə-ˈtər-nə-tē

Definition of maternity

as in fruitfulness

motherly character or qualities she had such maternity at such a young age that all her classmates went to her for comfort

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Recent Examples of maternity Anne Hathaway stepped out in New York City on September 30 and, once again, elevated maternity style. — Juliana Ukiomogbe, InStyle, 30 Sep. 2026 Co-writers Lustig and Roth were born in the same Toronto maternity ward on either side of midnight and grew up together at summer camp and have been best friends for decades. — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026 The attack on Kyiv damaged more than 50 civilian sites, including apartment blocks, post offices, a maternity hospital and a textile plant, Vyhivskyi, the interior minister, said. — Hanna Arhirova, Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2026 As a result, the process was carried out on a maternity database instead of the radiotherapy database, causing the maternity records database to be overwritten. — Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for maternity

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Noun

That regret is less visible online because men don’t tend to shout about failing fertility.

— Gavin Francis, The New York Review of Books, 24 Oct. 2026
The winemaking team uses a herd of Texel sheep during the late winter and early spring to improve soil structure and fertility.

— Mike DeSimone, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of fertility

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As in the productivity and content creation tests, the Scar 18 wound up somewhere in the middle for most of our graphics benchmarks.

— Marshall Honorof, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
Phase one is personal productivity, where individuals use AI to accomplish work faster.

— Chris Koehler, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of productivity

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