despotism

Significat (Anglès)

Government by a despot or despots: rule by a singular authority, either a single person or a tight-knit group, which rules with absolute power, especially in a cruel and oppressive way.

Conceptes

despotisme

tirania

absolutisme

autoritarisme

totalitarisme

dictadura

monocràcia

estalinisme

Sinònims

tyranny

dictatorship

absolutism

autocracy

totalitarianism

authoritarianism

oppression

arbitrariness

shogunate

autarchy

Caesarism

one-man rule

monocracy

severity

Stalinism

despotic state

authoritarian

cruelty

high-handedness

imperiousness

power

tyrannicalness

violence

tryranny

despotic rule

Traduccions

despotisme

Despotismus

despotismo

despotismo

dispotismo

Tyrannei

δεσποτισμός

despotisme

Despotie

τυραννία

dictature

Diktatur

tyrannie

dittatura

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈdɛspətɪzəm/

Etimologia (Anglès)

From French despotisme; equivalent to despot + -ism.