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totalitarian adjective [ ˌtəʊtalɪˈtɛːrɪən ]

• relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.
• "a totalitarian regime"
Similar: authoritarian, autocratic, autarchic, dictatorial, tyrannical, oppressive, repressive, one-party, monocratic, absolute, absolutist, undemocratic, anti-democratic, illiberal, despotic, fascist, fascistic, Nazi, neo-Nazi, Stalinist, dystopian,
Opposite: democratic, liberal,

totalitarian noun

• a person advocating a totalitarian system of government.
• "most totalitarians seem afraid of the spirit of science"
Similar: authoritarian, autocrat, dictator, tyrant, absolutist, despot, fascist, Nazi, neo-Nazi, Stalinist,
Opposite: democrat, liberal,


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