childbearing

Speech parts

1. childbearing - Noun

2. childbearing - Adjective

Meaning

The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

childbirth accouchement vaginal birth nativity parenthood labour obstetrics stork travail birth labor delivery bearing pregnancy reproduction

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Antonyms

death abortion fatality infertility impotence childlessness

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Hypernyms

birth birthing parturition giving birth

Hyponyms

natural childbirth alternative birth alternative birthing active birth

Phrases with the word

childbearing potential

Examples

Food is not evil, but gluttony is. Childbearing is not evil, but fornication is. Money is not evil, but avarice is. Glory is not evil, but vainglory is. Indeed, there is no evil in existing things, but only in their misuse. Maximus the Confessor

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing. Norman Mailer

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it. Andrea Dworkin

Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility. Germaine Greer

I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me, and her mom's had before her. Beth Ditto

Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood. Marquis de Sade

Close letter words and terms

child-related child-selling childbearer childbearing potential childbed childbed fever