Absolutism synonyms
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A form of government in which unlimited power is held by a single individual.
Government by a singular authority, either a single person or tight-knit group, which rules with absolute power, especially in a cruel and oppressive way.
The definition of a dictatorship is an office or government under absolute control of one person.
A system of government in which the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control, for example, a dictatorship.
Absolute rule or power; autocracy.
Government by one person; autocracy
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The definition of tyranny is a government or ruler with total power.
politics (related)
Political life:
over (related)
A series of six balls bowled from one end of a cricket pitch.
totalism
Doctrine of wholeness which may involve brainwashing
Military or imperial dictatorship; political authoritarianism.
a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
The administration of a shogun.
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The bureaucratic, authoritarian exercise of state power and mechanistic application of Marxist-Leninist principles associated with Stalin.
The act of taking a right away from an individual or group.
disfranchisement
The act of disfranchising.
A political and economic system of Europe from the 9th to about the 15th century, based on the holding of all land in fief or fee and the resulting relation of lord to vassal and characterized by homage, legal and military service of tenants, and forfeiture.
feudality
A feudal holding or estate; fief
indentureship
The condition of being indentured.
kaiserism
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serfhood
villenage
Alternative form of villeinage.
puritanism (related)
liberalism (related)
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orthodoxy (related)
centralism (related)
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rationalism (related)
absolute-monarchy (related)
Find another word for absolutism. In this page you can discover 30 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for absolutism, like: authoritarianism, autocracy, despotism, dictatorship, totalitarianism, autarchy, monocracy, tyranny, politics, over and totalism.