totalitarianism

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[ US /ˌtoʊˌtæɫəˈtɛɹiəˌnɪzəm/ ]
[ UK /tə‍ʊtˌælɪtˈe‍əɹi‍ənˌɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
  2. the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government
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How To Use totalitarianism In A Sentence

  • Nationalizing the airline industry is a far cry from comprehensive economic planning and totalitarianism.
  • In his novel 1984, George Orwell describes the hardship and puzzle of people in pursuing truth and pondering the future under the reign of totalitarianism.
  • Given the freedom to choose, the country's emerging political leaders rejected totalitarianism. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
  • What they all had in common was that they weren't particularly democratic, being variations either on autocracy or on bureaucratic totalitarianism.
  • The only kinds of writers excluded were supporters and apologists of totalitarianism.
  • In social life there is certainly no similar indisputability, but the whole experience of mankind shows that totalitarianism and dictatorship inevitably slide to the rails of arbitrary rule, crimes and atrocities. Vitaly L. Ginzburg - Autobiography
  • Refugees from totalitarianism and religious intolerance in Spain, Italy, Germany, and Eastern Europe flocked to this country nestled between the Caribbean and the Andean cordillera and helped forge one of the most vibrant societies in the New World. Brain Drain
  • The interconnexion between sadism, masochism, success-worship, power-worship, nationalism, and totalitarianism is a huge subject whose edges have barely been scratched, and even to mention it is considered somewhat indelicate. Raffles and Miss Blandish
  • Who are the real traitors to western enlightenment values - those of us who find both totalitarianism and religious fundamentalism abominations or those who topple dictators to install theocracy?
  • He is no conservative, he's a crackpot - a tinhorn autocrat who has mistaken totalitarianism for conservatism.
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