totalitarianism
1938, from totalitarian + -ism, modeled after Italian totalitarismo (1923, by Giovanni Amendola) and German terms such as Totalstaat (1927, The Concept of the Political, by Carl Schmitt). Noun
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1938, from totalitarian + -ism, modeled after Italian totalitarismo (1923, by Giovanni Amendola) and German terms such as Totalstaat (1927, The Concept of the Political, by Carl Schmitt). Noun
totalitarianism
- A system of government in which the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control, for example, a dictatorship.
- French: totalitarisme
- German: Totalitarismus
- Italian: totalitarismo
- Portuguese: totalitarismo
- Russian: тоталитари́зм
- Spanish: totalitarismo
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