Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun paternalism

1 sense of paternalism

Sense 1
paternalism -- (the attitude (of a person or a government) that subordinates should be controlled in a fatherly way for their own good)
       => attitude, mental attitude -- (a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways; "he had the attitude that work was fun")