totalitarian
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(s) 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.
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(a) of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life
- totalitarian theory and practice
- operating in a totalistic fashion
Nouns
- (n) an adherent of totalitarian principles or totalitarian government