avuncularism

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

avuncular +‎ -ism

Noun

avuncularism (uncountable)

  1. An avuncular attitude.
    • 1952, Harry Hopkins, New world arising:
      Their heavy paternalism was in some ways a better thing than the slapdash, half-bogus fraternalism of the French, or the priggish avuncularism of the British.
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