totalitarianism
toh ta luh te ree uh ni zuhm
- n a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
- n the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government
- This satire of totalitarianism came out the year after 1984, and almost didn't surface at all, in anything like its maker's version.
- Ceca's career is hopelessly entangled in the corruption, ethnic cleansing and soft totalitarianism of the Milosevic era.
- All the forces that had made the 20th century such a violent disappointment to idealists--totalitarianism, the gigantic state, the crushing of individual choice and initiative .