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totalism

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totalism

(rare, usually, uncountable) A social, economic and/or political system in which some authority (e.g. the state or "the market") wields absolute power; totalitarianism.
- 2013, Walter Brueggemann, Truth Speaks to Power: The Countercultural Nature of Scripture ISBN 0664239145, pages 162 and 164:
  Whenever it can, social power will tend as soon as possible toward totalism. Such social totalism is always a breath away from totalitarianism […]
  The apostles find a way to testify, in talk and in walk, about a truth that is vigorously and resolutely outside the totalism of Rome.
(rare, countable) A philosophy, ideology or belief system that is total in its scope, one that covers everything.
- 2004, Personal Epistemology: The Psychology of Beliefs ISBN 0805852352, page 220:
  To postmodernists, modernism gave the world science, reason, western civilization, Marxism, Freudianism, and other totalisms. Each of these totalisms tells a grand story that relates everything to everything else by using the system's universal principle as a theme.
(rare, uncountable) Totality; (the) entirety (of something).
(rare, uncountable) Totalness, absoluteness; the characteristic of being absolute in nature or scope.
- 1981, The Psychohistory Review, volume 10, parts 2-4, page 173:
  The ideological fervor, the abhorrence of compromise, the attraction to conflict, and the totalism of his family's rejection of white culture were the biographical themes that served him best as he tried to reach the hearts of his followers.

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