totalitarian Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. noun an adherent of totalitarian principles or totalitarian government
   
2. adjective satellite 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.
3. adjective of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life
   totalistic.
   
   • totalitarian theory and practice
   • operating in a totalistic fashion

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