Paternalism vs Patronizing - What's the difference?
paternalism | patronizing |
The treatment of people in a fatherly manner, especially by caring for them but sometimes being stern with them.
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As a noun paternalism
is the treatment of people in a fatherly manner, especially by caring for them but sometimes being stern with them.As an adjective patronizing is
offensively condescending.As a verb patronizing is
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Noun
(wikipedia paternalism)citation, passage=Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.}} English words suffixed with -ism