Synonyms for totalitarian
toʊˌtæl ɪˈtɛər i ənto·tal·i·tar·i·an

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1. totalitarianadjective

   an adherent of totalitarian principles or totalitarian government

   Antonyms:
   democratic

2. totalitarianadjective

   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.

   Synonyms:
   totalistic

   Antonyms:
   democratic

3. totalitarian, totalisticadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   totalistic

   Antonyms:
   democratic

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1. List of paraphrases for "totalitarian":

   totalitarianism, authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial

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1. Carl J. Friedrich:

   The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.

2. Gary Quinlan:

   The DPRK (North Korea) is in effect a totalitarian state which uses violence and repression against its own citizens to maintain itself and its threatening military apparatus in power, the regime's atrocities against its own people have created an inherently unstable state.

3. Lyndon B. Johnson:

   It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy. (Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure)

4. Tim Stephens:

   We’ve seen that the new prevailing worldview is totalitarian, seeking to define marriage, sexuality, and control health choices, it is absolutely intolerant to opposing beliefs. All socialistic and communistic movements hate the authority and law of God that Christianity promotes.

5. A.E. Samaan:

   Eugenics is not just a tool of totalitarianism. Eugenics, as it was conceived, could not be anything but totalitarian as it desired to control all aspects of society. Hitler’s “National Socialist” (Nationalsozialist) form of government was amongst the first to put the full force of its government to conduct compulsory health initiatives. It is by no coincidence that the Dachau concentration camp used its slave-labor to run the largest organic produce farm of the era.