Noun absolutism has 4 senses
- absolutism, tyranny, despotism - dominance through threat of punishment and violence
--1 is a kind of dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control
- dictatorship, absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny - a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
--2 is a kind of autocracy, autarchy
--2 has particulars: police state
- absolutism, totalitarianism, totalism - the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government
--3 is a kind of political orientation, ideology, political theory
- absolutism - the doctrine of an absolute being
--4 is a kind of doctrine, philosophy, philosophical system, school of thought, ism
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