Synonyms for despotism
ˈdɛs pəˌtɪz əmdespo·tism

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1. despotismnoun

   Synonyms:
   tyranny

2. despotismnoun

   government by a singular authority, either a single person or tight-knit group, which rules with absolute power

   Synonyms:
   tyranny

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1. absolutism, tyranny, despotismnoun

   dominance through threat of punishment and violence

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

2. 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, monocracy, totalitarianism

Matched Categories

1. • Autocracy
   • Dominance

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1. despotismnoun

   Synonyms:
   autocracy, absolutism, dictatorship, tyranny, absolute power, arbitrary rule

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1. despotismnoun

   Synonyms:
   absolutism, autocracy, tyranny

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1. List of paraphrases for "despotism":

   high-handedness, arbitrariness, tyranny, authoritarianism

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How to use despotism in a sentence?

1. Thomas Carlyle:

   France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams.

2. Mary McCarthy:

   Bureaucracy, the rule of no one has become the modern form of despotism.

3. Robert Nisbet:

   What gives the new despotism its peculiar effectiveness is indeed its liaison with humanitarianism, but beyond this fact its capacity for entering into the smallest details of human life.

4. Marquis de Sade:

   If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.

5. Jeffrey Tucker:

   It's like this machine that's just devouring the city with ever more controls, ever more absurd levels of despotism.