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authoritarianism
noun
(au-thor-i-tar-i-an-ism)
a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Synonyms:
absolutism
,
caesarism
,
despotism
,
dictatorship
,
monocracy
, one-man rule,
shogunate
,
stalinism
,
totalitarianism
,
tyranny
,
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totalitarianism
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despotism
,
dictatorship
,
stalinism
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absolutism
,
tyranny
,
monocracy
,
caesarism
,
shogunate
,
one-man rule
,
autocracy
,
totalitarian
,
despotic
,
domination
,
authority
,
comprehensiveness
,
high-handedness
,
fascism
,
socialism
,
statism
,
repression
,
fundamentalism
,
democracy
,
nationalism
,
theocracy
,
radicalism
,
liberalism
,
communism
,
militarism
,
paternalism
,
populism
,
imperialism
,
neoliberalism
,
leftism
,
islamism
,
capitalism
,
obscurantism
,
pluralism
,
democratization
,
dogmatism
,
secularism
,
feudalism
,
extremism
,
monarchism
,
oligarchy
,
oppression
,
collectivism
,
reformism
,
relativism
,
marxism
,
sovietism
,
colonialism
,
kleptocracy
,
clericalism
,
autarchy
,
lawlessness
,
tribalism
,
socialist
,
arbitrariness
,
centralism
,
ethnicism
,
separatism
,
utopianism
,
partyism
,
chauvinism
,
barbarism
,
constitutionalism
,
illiberalism
,
bonapartism
,
anarchy
,
democratic
,
mobocracy
,
demagogy
,
medievalism
,
welfarism
,
gerontocracy
,
political orientation
,
autocrats
,
irrationalism
,
parliamentarianism
,
judeophobia
,
russophobia
,
castroism
,
nihilism
,
exclusionism
,
modernity
,
manichaeism
,
ultranationalism
,
misrule
,
bolshevism
,
institutionalism
,
unilateralism
,
permissiveness
,
caudillo
,
subjectivism
,
legalism
,
reactionism
,
dirigisme
,
heterodoxy
,
turkism
,
authoritarianism
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