noun
- Dominance through threat of punishment and violence.
- A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc..
- synonyms: dictatorship, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny
- The principle of complete and unrestricted power in government.
- synonyms: totalitarianism, totalism
- The doctrine of an absolute being. .
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