Synonyms for authoritarianism
au·thor·i·tar·i·an·ism

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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, one-man rule, tyranny, absolutism, despotism, monocracy, totalitarianism

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1. • Autocracy

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1. List of paraphrases for "authoritarianism":

   high-handedness, authoritarian, autocracy, despotism, dictatorship, totalitarianism

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1. Steve Tsang:

   ( The Chinese and Russia) share two primary strategic interests, one is to take the American global leadership down a notch or two. The second is to make the world safe for authoritarianism.

2. Wolf Blitzer:

   It will be the work of your generation to make sure that this degradation of democracy does not continue -- to see to it that our current flirtation with lawlessness and authoritarianism does not become a heritable trait to be passed down from this presidency.

3. Justin Trudeau:

   Growing our economy, creating good jobs for people in a changing world, how we’re going to be holding off the rise of authoritarianism, defending our democracies, how we’re going to be continuing to step up on the fight against climate change …there’s so much that we can do together and so much greater impact that we have around the world when we do it together.

4. Da Silva:

   The country is going through one of the most serious moments in our history, requiring us to build an alternative path despite any differences in order to overcome the incompetence and authoritarianism that govern us.

5. Leonard E. Read:

   What, actually, is the difference between communism and fascism? Both are forms of statism, authoritarianism. The only difference between Stalin’s communism and Mussolini’s fascism is an insignificant detail in organizational structure.