Paternal vs Paternalize - What's the difference?
paternal | paternalize |
Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family
Fatherly; behaving as or characteristic of a father.
Received or inherited from one's father.
* Dryden
Acting as a father
To make paternal; to place in a fatherly role.
* 1912 , Edith M Phelps, Selected Articles on Government Ownership of the Telegraph
control organizations, things etc. disregarding people's freedom and responsibility under guise and pretense of knowing what would be good and proper for them
As an adjective paternal
is of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family.As a verb paternalize is
to make paternal; to place in a fatherly role.paternal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- paternal grandfather
- their small paternal field of corn
- paternal filicide
Derived terms
* paternalism * paternalistic * paternally * paternal aunt * paternal cousin * paternal grandfather * paternal grandmother * paternal uncleAntonyms
* maternal – motherCoordinate terms
* avuncular – uncle * maternal – mother * materteral – auntAnagrams
* ----paternalize
English
Verb
(paternaliz)- To paternalize the government or make it more bureaucratic is in their judgment to repress private enterprise and to imitate the monarchical systems...
