1. Dominance through threat of punishment and violence
   - tyranny, despotism 
2. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
   - dictatorship, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny 
3. The principle of complete and unrestricted power in government
   - totalitarianism, totalism 
4. The doctrine of an absolute being

Derived forms: absolutisms

See also: absolutist, absolutistic

Type of: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, autarchy, autocracy, control, doctrine, dominance, ideology, ism, mythos, philosophical system, philosophy, political orientation, political theory, school of thought

Encyclopedia: Absolutism

• Hernaria glabra
• hernia
• hernial
• herniated
• herniated disc
• herniation
• hero
• hero cookie
• Hero of Alexandria
• hero sandwich
• hero worshiper
• hero worshipper
• hero-worship
• Herod
• Herod the Great
• Herodotus
• heroic
• heroic couplet
• heroic meter
• heroic poem
• heroic poetry
• heroic stanza
• heroic tale
• heroic verse
• Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza