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totalitarianism

noun

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).

  1. derived from tōtālis
  2. derived from total
  3. inherited from total
  4. suffixed as totality — “total + ity”
  5. formed as totalitarian — “totality + -arian”
  6. suffixed as totalitarianism — “totalitarian + ism”

Definitions

  1. A system of government in which the people have virtually no authority and the state…

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

    • Mr. Yudin argues that Russia is moving out of authoritarianism – where political passivity and civic disengagement are key features – into totalitarianism, which relies on mass mobilization, terror and homogeneity of beliefs.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA