unsmothering

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of unsmother

comparative more unsmothering · superlative most unsmothering

1. Not smothering.

   You are the very model of unsmothering motherhood.

   2018, Molly MacRae, Scones and Scoundrels

   2 more examples

   He wanted Carol as a friend with her practicality, serenity and unsmothering sympathy.

   2011, Ann Widdecombe, Father Figure

   Ferguson could never let go of his mother, his unsmothering mother whose love was the source of all life for him, and merely to see her frown at him with that sad look in her eyes was a devastation, a bullet in the heart.

   2017, Paul Auster, 4 3 2 1: A Novel, page 445