totalitarianism
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Definition of totalitarianism
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Synonyms for totalitarianism
Synonyms
absolutism, autarchy, authoritarianism, autocracy, Caesarism, czarism (also tsarism), despotism, dictatorship, totalism, tyranny
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By the middle of the 20th century, when the free world faced the twin perils of fascist and communist totalitarianism, the tacit had become the explicit. — John Hood, National Review, "New Nationalists Make Three Big Bets," 28 Aug. 2019 Secularism and the pseudo-liberal tyranny of political correctness are almost as censoriousness as 20th-century totalitarianisms. — K.n.c., The Economist, "The radical politics of futurists and fascists—and us, here, today," 19 July 2019 That sort of ethnocentric cry, designed to stifle dissent and rally a political base, has helped fuel totalitarianism around the world. — Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, The Mercury News, "Editorial: Trump’s racist tweets designed to divide the nation," 18 July 2019 As a result, surveillance capitalists now wield a uniquely 21st century quality of power, as unprecedented as totalitarianism was nearly a century ago. — Shoshana Zuboff, Time, "The Surveillance Threat Is Not What Orwell Imagined," 6 June 2019 People on the left see fascism as the endpoint of right-wing reactionary thinking, and people on the right see fascism as nanny-state totalitarianism. — Sean Illing, Vox, "A Yale philosopher on fascism, truth, and Donald Trump.," 15 Dec. 2018 Without us, the world would be mired in the darkness of totalitarianism rather than the light of liberty. — Marc A. Thiessen, The Mercury News, "Thiessen: America’s better than ‘just OK’ as New York Times says," 10 July 2019 If creeping totalitarianism is your worry, such work is not a form of acquiescence but a form of resistance. — Christopher Beha, Harper's magazine, "Winning the Peace," 10 May 2019 Our memories of totalitarianism were too fresh to discount gut feeling in favor of opinion polls. — The New York Review of Books, "Anastasia Edel," 8 Apr. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'totalitarianism.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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