totalitarian

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control

   A totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul- Arthur M.Schlesinger, Jr.

2. 2
   adj

   of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life

   Totalitarian theory and practice.

From Italian totalitario (“complete, absolute, totalitarian”) + -an. Equivalent to totality + -arian.

Topics