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TOTALITARIAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does totalitarian mean?
• TOTALITARIAN (noun)
The noun TOTALITARIAN has 1 sense:
1. an adherent of totalitarian principles or totalitarian government
Familiarity information: TOTALITARIAN used as a noun is very rare.
• TOTALITARIAN (adjective)
The adjective TOTALITARIAN has 2 senses:
1. characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control
2. of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life
Familiarity information: TOTALITARIAN used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An adherent of totalitarian principles or totalitarian government
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("totalitarian" is a kind of...):
adherent; disciple (someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control
Context example:
a totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul
Similar:
undemocratic (not in agreement with or according to democratic doctrine or practice or ideals)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Synonyms:
totalistic; totalitarian
Context example:
operating in a totalistic fashion
Pertainym:
totalitarianism (the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government)
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