totalitarian

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian totalitario (“complete, absolute, totalitarian”) +‎ -an

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌtəʊtəlɪˈtɛɹiən/
• IPA^(key): /ˌtoʊtəlɪˈtɛəɹiən/
• Rhymes: -ɛəriən

Adjective

totalitarian (comparative more totalitarian, superlative most totalitarian)

1. Of or relating to a system of government where the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control of every aspect of the country, socially, financially and politically.

Translations

related to the system of government

• Armenian: ամբողջատիրական (hy) (amboġǰatirakan), տոտալիտար (hy) (totalitar)
• Catalan: totalitari
• Czech: totalitní (cs)
• Danish: totalitær
• Dutch: totalitair (nl), totalitaire (nl)
• Esperanto: totalisma
• Finnish: totalitaarinen (fi)
• French: totalitaire (fr)
• German: totalitär (de)
• Greek: ολοκληρωτικός (el) m (oloklirotikós)
• Japanese: 全体主義的 (zentaishugiteki)
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: totalitær

  Nynorsk: totalitær

• Persian: توتالیتر (fa) (totáliter)
• Polish: totalitarny (pl)
• Portuguese: totalitário (pt)
• Russian: тоталита́рный (ru) (totalitárnyj)
• Spanish: totalitario m, totalitaria f
• Swedish: totalitär (sv)

Noun

totalitarian (plural totalitarians)

1. An advocate of totalitarianism.

Related terms

• totalitarianism