Noun totalitarianism has 2 senses
- 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.)
--1 is a kind of autocracy, autarchy
--1 has particulars: police state
- absolutism, totalitarianism, totalism - the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government
--2 is a kind of political orientation, ideology, political theory
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