WordDisk
  • Reading
    • Shortcuts
      •   Home
      •   All Articles
      •   Read from Another Site
      Sources
      • Wikipedia
      • Simple Wikipedia
      • VOA Learning English
      • Futurity
      • The Conversation
      • MIT News
      • Harvard Gazette
      • Cambridge News
      • YDS/YÖKDİL Passages
      Topics
      • Technology
      • Engineering
      • Business
      • Economics
      • Human
      • Health
      • Energy
      • Biology
      • Nature
      • Space
  •  Log in
  •  Sign up
2.67
History
Add

autocracy noun [ ɔːˈtɒkrəsi ]

• a system of government by one person with absolute power.
Similar: absolutism, absolute power, totalitarianism, dictatorship, despotism, tyranny, monocracy, autarchy, dystopia,
Opposite: democracy,
Origin: mid 17th century (in the sense ‘autonomy’): from Greek autokrateia, from autokratēs (see autocrat).

2025 WordDisk