Crossword clues for totalitarian
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1926, first in reference to Italian fascism, formed in English on model of Italian totalitario "complete, absolute, totalitarian," from total (adj.) + ending from authoritarian. The noun is recorded from 1938.
Wiktionary
a. A system of government where the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control of every aspect of the country, socially, financially and politically. n. An advocate of totalitarianism.
WordNet
adj. characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control; "a totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul"- Arthur M.Schlesinger, Jr.
of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life; "totalitarian theory and practice"; "operating in a totalistic fashion" [syn: totalistic]
Usage examples of "totalitarian".
Nature to impose the biocentric solution that must also include culture in its totalitarian umbrella.
One is a rebel or one conforms, one is a frontiersman in the Wild West of American night life, or else a Square cell, trapped in the totalitarian tissues of American society, doomed willy-nilly to conform if one is to succeed.
The Hubbers had to invoke totalitarian control-or was it the other way around?
Galactic societies frown on derogatory kibitzing, because of the totalitarian taint clinging to even such a modified form of spying.
And a world made unsafe for mysticism and theocentric religion is a world where the only proved method of transforming personality will be less and less practiced, and where fewer and fewer people will possess any direct, experimental knowledge of reality to set up against the false doctrine of totalitarian anthropocentrism and the pernicious ideas and practices of nationalistic pseudo-mysticism.
The unprecedented depth of human misery in our time is proportionate to the unprecedented height of the social ideals entertained by the totalitarians on the one side, the Christians and the secularist democrats on the other.
Eventually, says their dogma, everyone will worship the beast under a brutal and absolute totalitarian dictatorship with the Antichrist as its leader, able to perform miracles to get the power and the following.
Japanese were able to throw off a decade and a half of the most intense militaristic indoctrination, for instance, offers lessons in the limits of socialization and the fragility of ideology that we have seen elsewhere in this century in the collapse of totalitarian regimes.
The ease with which the great majority of Japanese were able to throw off a decade and a half of the most intense militaristic indoctrination, for instance, offers lessons in the limits of socialization and the fragility of ideology that we have seen elsewhere in this century in the collapse of totalitarian regimes.
David Kertzer, an anthropologist at Brown University whose specialty is political rituals, told me that pledges of allegiance are marks of totalitarian states, not democracies.
In imperial postmodernity big government has become merely the despotic means of domination and the totalitarian production of subjectivity.
European and American industrialists were sponsoring all manner of totalitarian political groups at that time, including Communists and various Nazi groups.
The main operation consisted of helping two heinous regimes bleed each other a little longer while getting money to anti-Communists battling totalitarian tyrants in Nicaragua.
The modern totalitarians know what they are doing, and the nineteenth-century English did not know what they were doing.
Britain and France had started World War II over Poland, but at Yalta Roosevelt cavalierly relinquished Poland to another totalitarian despot.