Paternalize vs Patronize - What's the difference?
paternalize | patronize |
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 To make a patron.
To assume a tone of unjustified superiority; to talk down to; to treat condescendingly.
To make oneself a customer of a business, especially a regular customer.
In transitive terms the difference between paternalize and patronize
is that paternalize is to make paternal; to place in a fatherly role while patronize is to make oneself a customer of a business, especially a regular customer.paternalize
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(paternaliz)- To paternalize the government or make it more bureaucratic is in their judgment to repress private enterprise and to imitate the monarchical systems...
