totalitarianism

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Etymology

From totalitarian +‎ -ism.

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Noun

totalitarianism (uncountable)

1. A system of government in which the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control, for example, a dictatorship.

Related terms

• totalism
• totalistic
• totalist

Translations

system where state wields absolute control

• Arabic: شمولية (ar) (shumuulíyya) f
• Armenian: ամբողջատիրություն (hy) (ambołǰatirutʿyun)
• Catalan: totalitarisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 極權主義 (cmn), 极权主义 (cmn) (jíquánzhǔyì)

• Czech: totalitarismus (cs) m
• Finnish: totalitarismi (fi)
• French: totalitarisme (fr) m
• German: Totalitarismus (de) m
• Greek: ολοκληρωτισμός (el) (oloklirotismós) m
• Hungarian: totalitarizmus (hu)
• Italian: totalitarismo (it) m

• Japanese: 全体主義 (ja) (ぜんたいしゅぎ, zentaishugi)
• Korean: 전체주의 (ko) (jeonchejuui) (全體主義 (ko))
• Polish: totalitaryzm (pl) m
• Portuguese: totalitarismo (pt) m
• Romanian: totalitarism (ro) n
• Russian: тоталитаризм (ru) (totalitarízm) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тоталитаризам (sh) m

  Roman: totalitarizam (sh) m

• Spanish: totalitarismo (es)
• Swedish: totalitarism (sv) n
• Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa toàn trị (vi)