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Synonyms for totalitarianism
to·tal·i·tar·i·an·ism
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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.)
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shogunate, totalism, dictatorship, authoritarianism, one-man rule, tyranny, absolutism, despotism, monocracyabsolutism, totalitarianism, totalismnoun
the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government
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shogunate, totalism, dictatorship, authoritarianism, one-man rule, absolutism, despotism, tyranny, monocracy
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List of paraphrases for "totalitarianism":
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ranking | word | |
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#19906 | tyranny | |
#24512 | dictatorship | |
#35730 | totalitarian | |
#50246 | totalitarianism | |
#61615 | despotism | |
#69826 | authoritarianism | |
#90320 | absolutism | |
#139262 | shogunate |
How to use totalitarianism in a sentence?
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
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.
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.
Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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.
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- شموليةArabic
- totalitarismeCatalan, Valencian
- totalitarismusCzech
- TotalitarismusGerman
- ολοκληρωτισμόςGreek
- totalitarismoSpanish
- totalitarismiFinnish
- totalitarismeFrench
- totalitarizmusHungarian
- ամբողջատիրությունArmenian
- totalitarismoItalian
- 全体主義Japanese
- 全體主義, 전체주의Korean
- totalitaryzmPolish
- totalitarismoPortuguese
- totalitarismRomanian
- тоталитаризмRussian
- тоталитаризам, totalitarizamSerbo-Croatian
- totalitarismSwedish
- chủ nghĩa toàn trịVietnamese
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