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UK
/təʊtˌælɪtˈeəɹiən/
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[ US /ˌtoʊˌtæɫɪˈtɛɹiən/ ]
[ US /ˌtoʊˌtæɫɪˈtɛɹiən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control
a totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul -
of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life
totalitarian theory and practice
operating in a totalistic fashion
NOUN
- an adherent of totalitarian principles or totalitarian government
How To Use totalitarian In A Sentence
- Through a series of strategic puns Sukenick associates the collection of evidence, analysis and causal sequence with political totalitarianism.
- The main thoroughfare there is Midsummer Boulevard, or H6, if you prefer the totalitarian grid system peculiar to the area.
- As in so much else, the French revolutionary regime was the precursor of the centralized, totalitarian, managerial, pseudo-democratic despotisms that now reign over the West.
- The best way to rid the world of totalitarian regimes is to show their citizens what the rest of the world is really like.
- Twentieth-century totalitarian art did not just gild the cage; it helped to build it. Masters of the Dark Arts
- If Kerry had had his way, the Soviet Union and the nations behind the Iron Curtain would still be in place - groaning under inefficient, totalitarian Communist regimes.
- It worked best at times when the transatlantic alliance faced an existential, totalitarian threat. Times, Sunday Times
- We are radicals - not extremists and totalitarians.
- It was a call to arms for democrats faced with a totalitarian threat.
- any effective opposition to a totalitarian regime must be secretive and cellular
