totalitarianadjective
uk/təʊˌtæl.ɪˈteə.ri.ən/us/toʊˌtæl.əˈter.i.ən/disapprovingC2 of or being a political system in which those in power have complete control and do not allow people freedom to oppose them:
a totalitarian regime/state
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Systems of government
- a reign of terror idiom
- absolutism
- ancien régime
- anti-federalist
- apartheid
- Dem
- democracy
- democrat
- democratic
- democratize
- imperialism
- interregnum
- Jim Crow
- junta
- kleptocracy
- patriarchy
- plutocracy
- plutocrat
- police state
- regime
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totalitarianism
noun [ U ] uk/təʊˌtæl.ɪˈteə.ri.ə.nɪ.zəm/us/toʊˌtæl.əˈter.i.ə.nɪ.zəm/