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to·tal·i·tar·i·an

(tō-tăl′ĭ-târ′ē-ən)

adj.

Of, relating to, being, or imposing a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed: "A totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul" (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.).

A practitioner or supporter of such a government.

[total + (author)itarian.]

to·tal′i·tar′i·an·ism n.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

totalitarianism

1. a system of highly centralized government in which one political party or group takes control and grants neither recognition nor tolerance to other political groups.
2. autocracy in one of its several varieties.
3. the character or traits of an autocratic or authoritarian individual, party, government, or state. — totalitarian, n., adj.

totalitarianism

A form of government in which the state controls every aspect of the individual’s life and all opposition is suppressed.

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Noun 1. [画像:totalitarianism - a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)]totalitarianism - a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

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

autocracy, autarchy - a political system governed by a single individual

police state - a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police)

2. [画像:totalitarianism - the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government]totalitarianism - the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government

totalism, absolutism

ideology, political orientation, political theory - an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation

totalitarianism

noun

1. Absolute power, especially when exercised unjustly or cruelly:

autocracy, despotism, dictatorship, tyranny.

2. A political doctrine advocating the principle of absolute rule:

absolutism, authoritarianism, autocracy, despotism, dictatorship.

Translations

ολοκληρωτισμός

totalitarizam

totalitarismo

totalitarianismo

тоталитаризм

totalitarianism

[ˌtəʊtælɪˈtɛərɪənɪzəm] N → totalitarismo m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

totalitarianism

[təʊˌtælɪˈtɛəriənɪzəm] n → totalitarisme m

totalitarianism

n → Totalitarismus m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

totalitarianism

[ˌtəʊtælɪˈtɛərɪəˌnɪz/əm] n → totalitarismo

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(65) Stephane Courtois, Communism si Totalitarism, Translated by Anca Ciucan Tutuianu from the French original Communisme et Totalitarisme, (Paris: Perrin, 2009); (Iasi: Polirom, 2011).

Ideology, memory and religion in post-communist East Central Europe: a comparative study focused on post-Holocaust

(34.) However, authors such as Albert Camus, a few years later, would use the discourse of Mediterranean identity to identify features of resistance to totalitarism. See Albert Camus' "La nouvelle culture mediterraneenne" (The New Mediterranean Culture).

Translating Sicily for the German and French stage: Modern Europe, its periphery, and the archaic in Luigi Pirandello's Questa sera si recita a soggetto (1929-1935)

The two-page agreement which avoided any reference to the armed struggle further stresses that the parties want to secure the rights of the Sudanese people for freedom from totalitarism, violence, and poverty, and to move towards a well-established democracy, a just peace and balanced development".

Opposition, rebel forces sign joint declaration for peace and democracy in Sudan