| ADJECTIVE | all | paternalistic | benevolent but sometimes intrusive |
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| Sounds | pahter.nahlih'stihk | |
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| Rhymes | academic ... Zurich: 733 rhymes with ihk... | |
| Meaning | benevolent but sometimes intrusive. | |
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| Broader | paternal | characteristic of a father |
| Spanish | paternalista | |
| Catalan | paternalista | |
| Nouns | paternalism | the attitude (of a person or a government) that subordinates should be controlled in a fatherly way for their own good |
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