Associations to the word «Totalitarian»

Wiktionary

TOTALITARIAN, adjective. 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.
TOTALITARIAN, noun. An advocate of totalitarianism.

Dictionary definition

TOTALITARIAN, noun. An adherent of totalitarian principles or totalitarian government.
TOTALITARIAN, adjective. 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..
TOTALITARIAN, adjective. 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".

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke