Synonyms for totalitarianism
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1. dictatorship, absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyrannynoun

   a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

   Synonyms:
   shogunate, totalism, dictatorship, authoritarianism, one-man rule, tyranny, absolutism, despotism, monocracy

2. absolutism, totalitarianism, totalismnoun

   the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government

   Synonyms:
   shogunate, totalism, dictatorship, authoritarianism, one-man rule, absolutism, despotism, tyranny, monocracy

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1. • Autocracy
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1. List of paraphrases for "totalitarianism":

   totalitarian, dictatorship, authoritarianism

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1. Hannah Arendt:

   Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.

2. Denys Monastyrskyy:

   Today the border between totalitarianism and democracy passes behind our backs, the border between freedom and oppression, we are ready to fight for it.

3. Lev Gudkov:

   Of course it is not Stalinist totalitarianism and mass repressions, but there are nevertheless now 'prophylactic repressions'.

4. Scott Applewhite -RRB- Levin:

   Elizabeth Warren is a thug and a liar. She got into college lying about her ethnicity and continued to lie, she tried to use Native Americans to get to where she is. This thug wants to add 4 seats to the U.S. Supreme Court and 4 seats to the U.S. Senate: Enough seats until they control everything. That’s totalitarianism.

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.