English Explanatory Dictionary

totalitarianism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A system of government in which the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control, for example, a dictatorship.

Pronunciation

En-us-totalitarianism.ogg

Word forms

totalitarianism totalitarianisms

Etymology

1938, from totalitarian + -ism, modeled after Italian totalitarismo (1923, by Giovanni Amendola) and German terms such as Totalstaat (1927, The Concept of the Political, by Carl Schmitt).

Related words

totalism totalistic totalist

Derived words

inverted totalitarianism
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