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单词 totalitarianism
释义 to·tal·i·tar·i·an·ism
\-ēəˌnizəm\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: totalitarian (I) + -ism
1.
 a. : centralized control by an autocratic ruler or hierarchy regarded as infallible
  < in a democracy, forfeiture of sovereignty by the people means totalitarianism — E.L.Klein >
  < ideally Christianity desires totalitarianism, too, but in the sense that men everywhere come to see the validity of its definition of man — Times Literary Supplement >
 specifically : despotism
  < the barbarism of the Turks and the totalitarianism of the Spanish kings — New York Herald Tribune Book Review >
 b. : the political concept of man as the servant of the state : collectivism
  < the essence of totalitarianism, in contrast with democracy, is that there is … no area where the citizen's initiative is supreme — Laurence Stapleton >
  — compare individualism
2. : the quality or state of being totalitarian
 < Pilgrim and Puritan women … functioned and reacted in the stern totalitarianism of a male and theocratic civilization — New York Herald Tribune Book Review >
 < totalitarianism is … not by accident the distinguishing characteristic of the Nazi state — H.J.Morgenthau >
3. : a totalitarian dogma, method, or regime
 < championship of human values against all the insidious totalitarianismsNew Yorker >
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