how to pronounce paternalism
/pəˈtɜː.nə.lɪ.zəm/
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paternalism is pronounced in five syllables
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An example use of paternalism in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… from a place of paternalism Lee was only …”
meanings of paternalism
noun:
- The treatment of people in a fatherly manner, especially by caring for them and sometimes being stern with them.
paternalism frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR
the word paternalism occurs in english on average 1.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
topics paternalism can be related to
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that paternalism can be often used in the following areas:
1) business and work;
2) people, society, and culture;
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