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totalitarianisms

totalitarianisms is the plural of totalitarianism.

Meaning of totalitarianism

Noun

totalitarianism (countable and uncountable, plural totalitarianisms)

  1. A system of government in which the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control, for example, a dictatorship.
    • And if it is true that in the final stages of totalitarianism an absolute evil appears (absolute because it can no longer be deduced from humanly comprehensible motives), it is also true that without it we might never have known the truly radical nature of Evil.1951, Hannah Arendt, “Preface to the First Edition”, in The Origins of Totalitarianism (A Harvest/HBJ Book), new edition, San Diego, Calif.; New York, N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1973...

Questions about totalitarianisms

What is totalitarianisms the plural of?
Totalitarianisms is the plural of totalitarianism.

Words near totalitarianisms in the dictionary

  1. totalistic
  2. totalists
  3. totalitarian
  4. totalitarianise
  5. totalitarianism
  6. totalitarianisms
  7. totalitarianist
  8. totalitarianists
  9. totalitarianization
  10. totalitarianize
  11. totalitarianized

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