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A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
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totalitarianism
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1926, first recorded in reference to Italian fascism, from totalitarian + -ism .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) [syn: dictatorship , absolutism , authoritarianism , Caesarism , despotism , monocracy , one-man rule , shogunate , Stalinism ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A system of government in which the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control, for example, a dictatorship.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Totalitarianism is a political system where the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible. Totalitarian regimes stay in political power through an all-encompassing propaganda ...
Usage examples of totalitarianism.
FCC 651919, under the auspices of the Society for the Conversion of Extraterrestrial Nascent Totalitarianisms, calling Maxima Control.
I cannot for the life of me fit the recurring facial carbuncles of Karl Marx into my manipulationsnot even, though we know, well after the fact, that agonizing staphylococcus aitreus infections behind that famous beard helped shape twentieth century totalitarianism.
Hu Jintao came third, counted as worse than the leaders of the catastrophic regimes in Zimbabwe and Guinea and the Wahabi Islamist totalitarianism of Saudi Arabia.
There are several vital differences between totalitarianism and all the orthodoxies of the past, either in Europe or in the East.
All the evidence we have suggests that the sudden emotional changes which totalitarianism demands of its followers are psychologically impossible.
Totalitarianism has abolished freedom of thought to an extent unheard of in any previous age.
McCarthy's fundamental thesis was absolutely correct: The Democratic Party had fallen to the allures of totalitarianism.
Seventy years of totalitarianism had left them with a terrific appetite for back-tracking, doublespeak and doublecross.
It means condemning the Iraqi people to decades more terror and torture under Saddam's totalitarianism.
Britain may be fascized from without or as a result of some internal revolution, but the old ruling class can't, in my opinion, produce a genuine totalitarianism of their own.