Term: paternalism: the attitude (of a person or a government) that subordinates should be controlled in a fatherly way for their own good
Candidate hypernym: psychological feature: a feature of the mental life of a living organism → 1
Candidate hypernym: soft rot: mushy or slimy decay of plants caused by bacteria or fungi → 0
Candidate hypernym: savings: a fund of money put by as a reserve → 0
Candidate hypernym: dunghill: a heap of dung or refuse → 0
Candidate hypernym: tibeto-burman: a branch of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages spoken from Tibet to the Malay Peninsula → 0
Candidate hypernym: counterweight: a weight that balances another weight → 0
Candidate hypernym: myelography: roentgenography of the spinal cord to detect possible lesions (usually after injection of a contrast medium into the subarachnoid space) → 0
Candidate hypernym: baptisia: genus of North American plants with showy flowers and an inflated pod → 0
Candidate hypernym: eburnation: a change that occurs in degenerative joint disease in which bone is converted into a dense smooth substance resembling ivory → 0
Candidate hypernym: popinjay: an archaic term for a parrot → 0
Candidate hypernym: free soil party: a former political party in the United States; formed in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery into the territories; merged with the Liberty Party in 1848 → 0