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avuncularism

avuncularism noun: an avuncular attitude.

Noun

avuncularism (uncountable)

  1. An avuncular attitude.
    • 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

Forms of avuncularism

alternative formavunculism

Origin of avuncularism

From avuncular + -ism.

Questions about avuncularism

What does avuncularism mean?
Avuncularism means an avuncular attitude.
What part of speech is avuncularism?
Avuncularism is a noun.

Words near avuncularism in the dictionary

  1. avulsive
  2. avulsive cutoff
  3. avulsive cutoffs
  4. avuncuclan
  5. avuncular
  6. avuncularism
  7. avuncularities
  8. avuncularity
  9. avuncularly
  10. avunculate
  11. avunculates

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