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totalitarianism

Variant of totalitarian

adjective

  1. designating, of, or characteristic of a government or state in which one political party or group maintains complete control under a dictatorship and bans all others
  2. completely authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial, etc.

Origin: total + (author)itarian

noun

a person who favors such a government or state

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