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. Federico Finchelstein:

   Fascism sometimes becomes an attribute to describe someone that is intolerant or totalitarian or even racist, when dealing with an important part of the nation such as Hispanics, I think he definitely fits those categories.

2. George Orwell, Essay: "The Prevention of Literature" (1946):

   From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

3. Yaser Mirdamadi:

   Hassan Khomeini is promoting the modern and democratic side of his grandfather's legacy and stays silent about the dark, authoritarian side, he wants to show the real Khomeini respects the rights of all groups, and that the totalitarian side was a temporary necessity during early years of the revolution.

4. Zygmunt Bauman:

   All (totalitarian) versions of society-as-garden define the parts of the social habitat as human weeds. Like all weeds, they must be segregated, contained, prevented from spreading, removed and kept outside the society boundaries; if all these means prove insufficient, they must be killed.

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.