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despotism
noun
(des-pot-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
,
authoritarianism
,
caesarism
,
dictatorship
,
monocracy
, one-man rule,
shogunate
,
stalinism
,
totalitarianism
,
tyranny
,
despotism
noun
(des-pot-ism)
dominance through threat of punishment and violence
Synonyms:
absolutism
,
tyranny
,
Words Related to
despotism
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tyranny
,
totalitarianism
,
authoritarianism
,
caesarism
,
dictatorship
,
absolutism
,
stalinism
,
monocracy
,
shogunate
,
one-man rule
,
autocracy
,
despotic
,
totalitarian
,
arbitrariness
,
repressive
,
caprice
,
mercy
,
arbitrary
,
high-handedness
,
oppression
,
feudalism
,
theocracy
,
imperialism
,
fascism
,
barbarism
,
subjugation
,
oligarchy
,
statism
,
monarchism
,
democracy
,
repression
,
anarchy
,
colonialism
,
obscurantism
,
kleptocracy
,
misrule
,
oppressor
,
servility
,
socialism
,
communism
,
capitalism
,
hegemony
,
autarchy
,
subjection
,
liberalism
,
militarism
,
immorality
,
servitude
,
corporatism
,
tyrants
,
despots
,
bonapartism
,
medievalism
,
dictators
,
illiberalism
,
imperium
,
autocrats
,
aristocracies
,
civilization
,
rapine
,
rulers
,
vassalage
,
manichaeism
,
serfdom
,
arabism
,
neocolonialism
,
wickedness
,
overlordship
,
imamate
,
islamism
,
welfarism
,
monarchies
,
unreason
,
irredentism
,
castroism
,
dehumanisation
,
fundamentalism
,
adventurism
,
democratic
,
expansionism
,
knavery
,
industrialism
,
constitutionalism
,
republic
,
imperial
,
tribalism
,
tyrannic
,
atavism
,
enfeeblement
,
backwardness
,
repressiveness
,
counterrevolution
,
mobocracy
,
despotize
,
royalism
,
murderousness
,
neoliberalism
,
degeneracy
,
sectionalism
,
bolshevism
,
despotism
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