avuncularism
English
Alternative forms
- avunculism
Etymology
avuncular + -ism
Noun
avuncularism (uncountable)
- 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.
- 1952, Harry Hopkins, New world arising