totalitarian
/ˌtəʊtalɪˈtɛəɹiən/US/ˌtoʊtəlɪˈtɛɹiən/
totalitarian adjective: of or relating to a system of government where the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control of every aspect of the country, socially, financially, and politically.
Adjective
totalitarian (comparative more totalitarian, superlative most totalitarian)
- Of or relating to a system of government where the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control of every aspect of the country, socially, financially, and politically.
- The divine truth is stronger than totalitarian falsehoods.
- Only history can tell us where China will go from here. The Chinese leadership's brutal crackdown on students seeking fundamental democratic rights makes it difficult to chart the future. Those brave students who laid down their lives against the tanks of Tiananmen Square confirmed what I'd always...1990, Ronald Reagan, An American Life, Pocket Books, →ISBN, pages 372–373
Noun
totalitarian (plural totalitarians)
- An advocate of totalitarianism.
totalitarian meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
totalitarian in Hindi
- related to the system of government
- सर्वसत्तावादी sarvasattāvādī
totalitarian in Tamil
- சர்வாதிபத்திய ஆட்சி ஆதரவாளர், சர்வாதிபத்தியமான, தனிக்கூட்டரசான, தனி ஒருகட்சியாதிக்கமுடைய
totalitarian in Marathi
- सर्वाधिकारवादी
totalitarian in Urdu
- مطلق العنانانہ
More languagesFewer languages
- totalitarian in Malayalam
- സർവ്വാധിപത്യപരമായ, സമഗ്രാധിപത്യമായ
- totalitarian in Kannada
- ನಿರಂಕುಶ, ಸರ್ವಾಧಿಕಾರ
- totalitarian in Nepali
- सर्वाधिकारवादी
- totalitarian in Arabic
- شُمُولِيّ šumūliyy
- totalitarian in Malay
- totalitarian
- totalitarian in Indonesian
- totaliter
- totalitarian in Persian
- توتالیتر totâliter
- totalitarian in Thai
- เผด็จการ pà-dèt-gaan
Examples of totalitarian in a sentence
- Mussolini was a fascist well known for his repression of criticism and totalitarian government.
- Couldn't docility from totalitarian indoctrination be a human shortcoming?
- Protagonists in social struggles, national liberation movements, and campaigns for citizens' rights, they invariably founded totalitarian, oppressive, and liberticidal regimes.
Forms of totalitarian
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more totalitarian |
| superlative | most totalitarian |
| Noun | |
| plural | totalitarians |
Origin of totalitarian
From Italian totalitario (“complete, absolute, totalitarian”) + -an. Equivalent to totality + -arian.
Words formed from totalitarian
Words that rhyme with totalitarian
- Darien
- barbarian
- Aryan
- libertarian
- Arian
- documentarian
- humanitarian
- sabbatarian
- sectarian
- unitarian
- vegetarian
- -arian
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- agrarian
- Bulgarian
- caesarian
- catenarian
- librarian
- lunarian
- Marian
- planetarian
- Ripuarian
- Solarian
- trinitarian
- alphabetarian
- antiauthoritarian
- aquarian
- Bolivarian
- communitarian
- contrarian
- corpuscularian
- denarian
- flexitarian
- futilitarian
- infirmarian
- Kaffrarian
- necessitarian
- nonsectarian
- paraovarian
- parian
- pollotarian
- proprietarian
- quinarian
- sacramentarian
- sanitarian
- semivegetarian
- Tartarean
- Tartarian
- Tocharian
- tricenarian
- valetudinarian
- vestiarian
- acarian
- actiniarian
- actuarian
- aerarian
- alcyonarian
- altitudinarian
- antelapsarian
- antiacarian
- antiegalitarian
Questions about totalitarian
- What does totalitarian mean?
- Totalitarian means of or relating to a system of government where the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control of every aspect of the country, socially, financially, and politically.
- What is totalitarian in Hindi?
- Totalitarian in Hindi is सर्वसत्तावादी (sarvasattāvādī). See Totalitarian meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is totalitarian?
- Totalitarian can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce totalitarian?
- Totalitarian is pronounced /ˌtəʊtalɪˈtɛəɹiən/ (UK).
Words near totalitarian in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: totalitarian (page history and authors); totalitarian (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); totalitarian (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); totalitarian (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); totalitarian (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); totalitarian (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); totalitarian (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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