English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] French despotisme
Pronunciation
Noun
despotism (countable and uncountable plural despotisms
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
Translations
government by a singular authority
Armenian: բռնապետություն (hy) ( bṙnapetutʻyun )
Asturian: despotismu m
Azerbaijani: despotizm
Basque: despotismo
Bulgarian: деспотизъм (bg) m ( despotizǎm )
Catalan: despotisme m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 專制 ／ 专制 (zh) ( zhuānzhì ) , 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 )
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Kazakh: деспотизм ( despotizm )
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 ( dhakkeśāhī )
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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