motherhood

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

motherhood
    n 1: the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother
         [syn: {motherhood}, {maternity}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Motherhood \Moth"er*hood\, n.
   The state of being a mother; the character or office of a
   mother.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

41 Moby Thesaurus words for "motherhood":
      affiliation, agnation, alliance, ancestry, blood,
      blood relationship, brotherhood, brothership, cognation,
      common ancestry, common descent, connection, consanguinity,
      cousinhood, cousinship, enation, fatherhood, filiation, fraternity,
      kindred, kinship, maternalness, maternity, matrilineage, matriliny,
      matrisib, matrocliny, motherliness, mothership, paternity,
      patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, propinquity,
      relation, relationship, sibship, sisterhood, sistership,
      ties of blood