avuncularism

Etymology

From avuncular + -ism.

avuncularism means an avuncular attitude. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

noun

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.”