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Paternalize vs Maternalize - What's the difference?

paternalize | maternalize |

In lang=en terms the difference between paternalize and maternalize

is that paternalize is to make paternal; to place in a fatherly role while maternalize is to make maternal.

As verbs the difference between paternalize and maternalize

is that paternalize is to make paternal; to place in a fatherly role while maternalize is to make maternal.

paternalize

English

Verb

(paternaliz)
  • To make paternal; to place in a fatherly role.
  • * 1912 , Edith M Phelps, Selected Articles on Government Ownership of the Telegraph
    • To paternalize the government or make it more bureaucratic is in their judgment to repress private enterprise and to imitate the monarchical systems...
  • control organizations, things etc. disregarding people's freedom and responsibility under guise and pretense of knowing what would be good and proper for them

    • maternalize

    English

    Verb

    (maternaliz)
  • To make maternal.
  • * 2003 , Rory Cooke Dicker, Alison Piepmeier, Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century
    • Women's professional status is frequently mediated by overt efforts to "beautify" or maternalize them, or both.