despotism

English

Etymology

From French despotisme; equivalent to despot +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛspətɪzəm/

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Noun

despotism (countable and uncountable, plural despotisms)

1. government by a singular authority, either a single person or tight-knit group, which rules with absolute power, especially in a cruel and oppressive way.

Synonyms

• tyranny

Related terms

• despot
• despotate
• despotic

Translations

government by a singular authority

• Armenian: բռնապետություն (hy) (bṙnapetutʿyun)
• Asturian: despotismu m
• Azerbaijani: despotizm
• Basque: despotismo
• Bulgarian: деспотизъм (bg) m (despotizǎm)
• Catalan: despotisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 專制 (zh), 专制 (zh) (zhuānzhì)

• Czech: despotismus m, despocie (cs) f
• Danish: despoti (da) n
• Dutch: despotisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: despotismo (eo)
• Finnish: itsevaltius (fi)
• French: despotisme (fr)
• Galician: despotismo (gl) m
• Georgian: დესპოტიზმი (desṗoṭizmi)
• German: Despotie (de) f, Despotismus (de) m, Willkür (de) f
• Greek: δεσποτισμός (el) m (despotismós)
• Hungarian: despotizmus (hu)
• Icelandic: harðstjórn f
• Ido: despoteso (io)
• Indonesian: despotisme (id)
• Irish: forlámhas m, smachtúlacht f, tíorántacht f
• Italian: dispotismo (it) m
• Japanese: 専制 (ja) (せんせい, sensei)

• Kazakh: деспотизм (despotïzm)
• Latin: despotismus m
• Macedonian: деспотизам m (despotizam)
• Malay: despotisme
• Mingrelian: დესპოტიზმი (desṗoṭizmi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: despoti n

  Nynorsk: despoti n

• Polish: despotyzm (pl) m
• Portuguese: despotismo (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਧੱਕੇਸ਼ਾਹੀ (dhakeshāhī)
• Romanian: despotism (ro) n
• Russian: деспоти́зм (ru) m (despotízm), произво́л (ru) m (proizvól), деспоти́я (ru) f (despotíja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: деспотѝзам m

  Roman: despotìzam (sh) m

• Slovak: despotizmus m
• Slovene: despotizem m
• Spanish: despotismo (es) m
• Swedish: despoti n, despotism (sv) n
• Thai: ระบบใช้อำนาจเด็ดขาด (rá-bòp chái am-nâat dèt kàat)
• Turkish: despotizm (tr)
• Ukrainian: деспоти́зм m (despotýzm)
• Uzbek: despotiya (uz)
• Volapük: däspot (vo)

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