What is the meaning of totalitarian?

noun

  • An adherent of totalitarian principles or totalitarian government.

adjective

  • Characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control. "a totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
  • Of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life.
    • usage: "totalitarian theory and practice"; "operating in a totalistic fashion"
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