Usually means: Absolute, centralized control by state.
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  1. totalitarian: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. totalitarian: Merriam-Webster
  3. totalitarian: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. totalitarian: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. totalitarian: Collins English Dictionary
  6. totalitarian: Vocabulary.com
  7. Totalitarian, totalitarian: Wordnik
  8. totalitarian: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. totalitarian: Wiktionary
  10. totalitarian: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. totalitarian: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. totalitarian: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. totalitarian: Dictionary.com
  14. totalitarian (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. totalitarian: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Totalitarian: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  18. totalitarian: FreeDictionary.org
  19. totalitarian: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. totalitarian: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Of or relating to 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.
▸ noun:  An advocate of totalitarianism.

Similar:
totalistic, undemocratic, antitotalitarian, brutalitarian, globalitarian, totalist, 1984-esque, Orwellian, anocratic, unipolar, more...

Opposite:
democratic, libertarian, autonomous

Types:
fascist, communist, authoritarian, more...

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totalitarian state, totalitarian regimes, totalitarian regime, totalitarian dictatorship, totalitarian government, more...

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most, least, modern, democratic, anti, inherently, complete, soviet, worst, conservative, very

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Similar:
totalistic, undemocratic, antitotalitarian, brutalitarian, globalitarian, totalist, 1984-esque, Orwellian, anocratic, unipolar, more...

Opposite:
democratic, libertarian, autonomous

Types:
fascist, communist, authoritarian, more...

Phrases:
totalitarian state, totalitarian regimes, totalitarian regime, totalitarian dictatorship, totalitarian government, totalitarian temptation, totalitarian dictators, Totalitarian democracy, more...

Adjectives:
most, least, modern, democratic, anti, inherently, complete, soviet, worst, conservative, very

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    black,     red,     gray,     dark blue,     brown, more...



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