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totalitarian
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun totalitarian has 1 sense
- totalitarian(n = noun.person) Array - an adherent of totalitarian principles or totalitarian government; Array is a kind of adherent, disciple
Adjective totalitarian has 2 senses
- totalitarian(s = adj.all) Array - characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control; "a totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul"
- totalitarian(a = adj.pert) totalistic - of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life; "totalitarian theory and practice"; "operating in a totalistic fashion"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
totalitarian, adj. & n.
--adj. of or relating to a centralized dictatorial form of government requiring complete subservience to the State.
--n. a person advocating such a system.
--adj. of or relating to a centralized dictatorial form of government requiring complete subservience to the State.
--n. a person advocating such a system.
Derivative
totalitarianism n.
THESAURUS
totalitarian
absolute, absolutist, arbitrary, aristocratic, ascendant, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, autonomous, bureaucratic, civic, civil, clothed with authority, commanding, competent, consequential, considerable, constitutional, controlling, democratic, despotic, dictatorial, dominant, duly constituted, eminent, empowered, ex officio, fascist, federal, federalist, federalistic, governing, governmental, great, gubernatorial, hegemonic, hegemonistic, heteronomous, illiberal, imperative, important, influential, leading, matriarchal, matriarchic, mighty, momentous, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, monocratic, monolithic, official, oligarchal, oligarchic, oppressive, parliamentarian, parliamentary, patriarchal, patriarchic, pluralistic, political, potent, powerful, preeminent, prestigious, prominent, puissant, ranking, republican, ruling, self-governing, senior, substantial, superior, supreme, theocratic, total, tyrannical, undemocratic, unlimited, weighty
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