totalitarianism

Meanings

• a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
• the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government

Synonyms

• dictatorship
• absolutism
• authoritarianism
• Caesarism
• despotism
• monocracy
• one-man rule
• shogunate
• Stalinism
• tyranny
• totalism

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