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CAESARISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Caesarism mean?
• CAESARISM (noun)
The noun CAESARISM has 1 sense:
1. a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Familiarity information: CAESARISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
absolutism; authoritarianism; Caesarism; despotism; dictatorship; monocracy; one-man rule; shogunate; Stalinism; totalitarianism; tyranny
Hypernyms ("Caesarism" is a kind of...):
autarchy; autocracy (a political system governed by a single individual)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Caesarism"):
police state (a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police))
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