noun
mothership
noun
1
The condition or state of being a mother.
"She wrote candidly about the exhaustion and joy of mothership in her memoir."
How to Use Mothership
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishThe state of being someone's mother — not to be confused with the large spaceship sense of "mother ship."
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Etymology
From Middle English modership, built from "mother" plus the suffix "-ship," which turns a noun into a state or condition (compare "friendship").