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) Bosnian: totalitarizam (bs) m. Catalan: totalitarisme (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 極權主義 (zh), 极权主义 (zh) (jíquánzhǔyì) Croatian: totalitarizam (hr) m. Finnish: totalitarismi (fi) French: totalitarisme (fr) German: Totalitarismus (de) 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)) Portuguese: totalitarismo (pt) m. Romanian: totalitarism (ro) n. Russian: тоталитаризм (ru) (totalitarízm) m. Serbian: Cyrillic: тоталитаризам m. Latin: totalitarizam m. Spanish: totalitarismo (es) Swedish: totalitarism (sv) n. Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa toàn trị (vi)