What is another word for totalitarianism?

Synonyms for totalitarianism
to·tal·i·tar·i·an·ism

This thesaurus page includes all potential synonyms, words with the same meaning and similar terms for the word totalitarianism.

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  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

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "totalitarianism":

    totalitarian, dictatorship, authoritarianism

How to pronounce totalitarianism?

How to say totalitarianism in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

rankingword
#19906tyranny
#24512dictatorship
#35730totalitarian
#50246totalitarianism
#61615despotism
#69826authoritarianism
#90320absolutism
#139262shogunate

How to use totalitarianism in a sentence?

  1. Mahatma Gandhi:

    What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy

  2. Douglas Brinkley:

    Havel oozed democracy and had seen totalitarianism up close, nobody thought Havel, a playwright, could end up being a great world leader, and he did.

  3. New York:

    New York City should still use this opportunity to rename the street and thumb ournose at the North Korean dictatorship. Otto's life could matter even more as a strong sign against totalitarianism.

  4. Herman Hesse:

    Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.

  5. 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.


Translations for totalitarianism

From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary

Get even more translations for totalitarianism »

Translation

Find a translation for the totalitarianism synonym in other languages:

Select another language:

  • - Select -
  • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
  • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
  • Español (Spanish)
  • Esperanto (Esperanto)
  • 日本語 (Japanese)
  • Português (Portuguese)
  • Deutsch (German)
  • العربية (Arabic)
  • Français (French)
  • Русский (Russian)
  • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
  • 한국어 (Korean)
  • עברית (Hebrew)
  • Gaeilge (Irish)
  • Українська (Ukrainian)
  • اردو (Urdu)
  • Magyar (Hungarian)
  • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
  • Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Italiano (Italian)
  • தமிழ் (Tamil)
  • Türkçe (Turkish)
  • తెలుగు (Telugu)
  • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
  • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
  • Čeština (Czech)
  • Polski (Polish)
  • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Românește (Romanian)
  • Nederlands (Dutch)
  • Ελληνικά (Greek)
  • Latinum (Latin)
  • Svenska (Swedish)
  • Dansk (Danish)
  • Suomi (Finnish)
  • فارسی (Persian)
  • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
  • հայերեն (Armenian)
  • Norsk (Norwegian)
  • English (English)

Citation

Use the citation below to add these synonyms to your bibliography:

Style:MLAChicagoAPA

"totalitarianism." Synonyms.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 29 Mar. 2024. <https://www.synonyms.com/synonym/totalitarianism>.

Discuss these totalitarianism synonyms with the community:

0 Comments

    Are we missing a good synonym for totalitarianism?

    Image or illustration of

    totalitarianism

    Credit »

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Chrome

    Get instant synonyms for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Firefox

    Get instant synonyms for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Browse Synonyms.com

    Quiz

    Are you a human thesaurus?

    »
    What could be a synonym for Fur?
    A Hair
    B Strand
    C Pelt
    D Bang

    Nearby & related entries:

    Alternative searches for totalitarianism: