Avuncularism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An avuncular attitude. uncountable

    "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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"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."

Etymology

From avuncular + -ism.

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