totalitarianism
Meaning
A system of government in which the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control, for example, a dictatorship.
Synonyms
one-man rule
totalitation regime
totalitarian state
Translations
totalitarisme
totalitarismo
ολοκληρωτισμός
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Totalitarismus
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absolutisme απολυταρχίαEtymology
1938, from totalitarian + -ism, modeled after Italian totalitarismo (1923, by Giovanni Amendola) and German terms such as Totalstaat (1927, The Concept of the Political, by Carl Schmitt).
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