Absolutism synonyms

ăb'sə-lo͝o'tĭz'əm

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rationalism (related)
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authoritarianism
A form of government in which the governing body has absolute, or almost absolute, control. Typically this control is maintained by force, and little heed is paid to public opinion or the judicial system.
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absolute-monarchy (related)
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puritanism (related)
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despotism
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.
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dictatorship
The definition of a dictatorship is an office or government under absolute control of one person.
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autocracy
A form of government in which unlimited power is held by a single individual.
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totalitarianism
A system of government in which the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control, for example, a dictatorship.
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autarchy
Absolute rule or power; autocracy.
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monocracy
Government by one person; autocracy
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tyranny
The definition of tyranny is a government or ruler with total power.
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politics (related)
Political life:
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totalism
Doctrine of wholeness which may involve brainwashing
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caesarism
Military or imperial dictatorship; political authoritarianism.
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one-man rule
a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
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stalinism
The bureaucratic, authoritarian exercise of state power and mechanistic application of Marxist-Leninist principles associated with Stalin.
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disenfranchisement
The act of taking a right away from an individual or group.
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disfranchisement
The act of disfranchising.
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feudalism
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.
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feudality
A feudal holding or estate; fief
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indentureship
The condition of being indentured.
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kaiserism
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state socialism (related)
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orthodoxy (related)
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centralism (related)
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over (related)
A series of six balls bowled from one end of a cricket pitch.
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serfhood
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villenage
Alternative form of villeinage.
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liberalism (related)
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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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