totalitarian
/ˌtəʊtalɪˈtɛːrɪən
/ /təˌtalɪˈtɛːrɪən/adjective
Relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state: a totalitarian regime...
- We usually connect propaganda to totalitarian regimes and undemocratic societies.
- More often, in fact, they are foot soldiers of totalitarian regimes and of mob rule.
- Everywhere that people lived under totalitarian dictatorships, they felt he was one of them.
Synonyms
authoritarian, autocratic, autarchic, dictatorial, tyrannical, oppressive, repressive, one-party, monocratic, absolute, absolutist, undemocratic, anti-democratic, illiberal, despotic, fascist, fascistic, Nazi, neo-Nazi, Stalinist;
dystopian
noun
A person advocating a totalitarian system of government: most totalitarians seem afraid of the spirit of science...
- Shakespeare thus places himself between utopian totalitarians and libertarian fundamentalists.
- We are radicals - not extremists and totalitarians.
- Twentieth-century totalitarians - fascists and communists - felt constrained to bow toward popular sovereignty with plebiscitary forms.
Synonyms
authoritarian, autocrat, dictator, tyrant, absolutist, despot, fascist, Nazi, neo-Nazi, Stalinist
