Paternalism Synonyms

pə-tûrnə-lĭzəm
Synonyms:
(Noun)
  1. collectivism
  2. totalitarianism
  3. socialism
  4. benevolent despotism
  5. jurisdiction
  6. fourierism

Words Related to Paternalism

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Paternalism Sentence Examples

  • To be sure it is not always easy to distinguish between legal moralism and moral paternalism.

  • This rules out, among other things, conceptions of 'positive liberty ' that really involve paternalism.

  • There was the paternalism of a Frederick the Great in his encouragement of the silk industry, - "which all idle people ought to be made to work at," - in his encouragement of commerce through the newly acquired port of Marseilles and the opening up of market placed.

  • But the bans begun in the 1970s strike many Third Worlders as a particularly noxious example of Western paternalism.

  • Richard Dimbleby's benevolent paternalism was set alongside the differing personalities of Michelmore and, to a greater extent, Whicker.

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