Absolutism Synonyms

ăbsə-lo͝otĭzəm
A political doctrine advocating the principle of absolute rule
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. totalitarianism
  2. authoritarianism
  3. despotism
  4. dictatorship
  5. caesarism
  6. autocracy
  7. monocracy
  8. one-man rule
  9. shogunate
  10. feudalism
  11. stalinism
  12. indentureship
  13. totalism
  14. tyranny
  15. kaiserism
  16. serfhood
  17. villenage
A government in which a single leader or party exercises absolute control over all citizens and every aspect of their lives
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. tyranny
  2. despotism
  3. autarchy
  4. autocracy
  5. dictatorship
  6. monocracy
  7. disenfranchisement
  8. disfranchisement
  9. feudality

Words Related to Absolutism

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Absolutism Sentence Examples

  • This is perhaps the best that can be said of a king who incarnated the stolid absolutism of the period.

  • The Kongelov has the highly dubious honour of being the one written law in the civilized world which fearlessly carries out absolutism to the last consequences.

  • On July 26 1914 Stiirgkh closed Parliament altogether, and non-parliamentary absolutism reigned for three years.

  • A treasonable senate secretly plotting his dethronement, a mutinous diet rejecting the most necessary reforms for fear of "absolutism," ungrateful allies who profited exclusively by his victories - these were his inseparable companions during the remainder of his life.

  • But the great wisdom of Peisistratus is shown most clearly in the skill with which he blinded the people to his absolutism.

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