totalitarian
[toh-tal-i-tair-ee-uh n]
- of or relating to a centralized government that does not tolerate parties of differing opinion and that exercises dictatorial control over many aspects of life.
- exercising control over the freedom, will, or thought of others; authoritarian; autocratic.
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- an adherent of totalitarianism.
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Origin of totalitarian
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He would later say that the war pitted the anti-totalitarian left against the anti-imperialist left.
totalitarian
- of, denoting, relating to, or characteristic of a dictatorial one-party state that regulates every realm of life
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- a person who advocates or practises totalitarian policies
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Word Origin
from totality + -arian
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Word Origin and History for anti-totalitarian
totalitarian
adj.
1926, first in reference to Italian fascism, formed in English on model of Italian totalitario "complete, absolute, totalitarian," from the Italian cognate of English total (adj.). The noun is recorded from 1938.
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