absolutism
Nouns
- (n) dominance through threat of punishment and violence despotism, tyranny,
- (n) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) authoritarianism, Caesarism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny, despotism,
- (n) the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government totalism, totalitarianism,
- (n) the doctrine of an absolute being