avuncularism

English

Alternative forms

• avunculism

Etymology

From 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.