Despotism Synonyms

dĕspə-tĭzəm
A government in which a single leader or party exercises absolute control over all citizens and every aspect of their lives
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. absolutism
  2. autarchy
  3. autocracy
  4. dictatorship
  5. monocracy
  6. tyranny
Autocracy
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. absolutism
  2. dictatorship
  3. autocracy
  4. authoritarianism
  5. totalitarianism
  6. imperialism
  7. caesarism
  8. tyranny
  9. monocracy
  10. one-man rule
  11. shogunate
  12. stalinism

Words Related to Despotism

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Despotism Sentence Examples

  • At the same time his paternal despotism tended to emasculate the Tuscan character.

  • The appeal to Rome was a natural course to be advocated by Wolsey, whose despotism over the English church depended upon an authority derived from Rome; but it was probably a mistake.

  • The government was a despotism, but a king who aroused the extreme dissatisfaction of his subjects was liable to be murdered.

  • He came into collision with philanthropists, and was supposed to approve of despotism for its own sake.

  • But this despotism was of a mild type.

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