AUTARCHY Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

autarchy

noun

Definition of autarchy

as in tyranny

a system of government in which the ruler has unlimited power having just thrown off the yoke of Great Britain, the American Founding Fathers were adamantly opposed to establishing some form of homegrown autarchy

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Noun

In its vision of a desolate America ruled by tyranny and militia, the United States becomes, in the eyes of those who live in its pre-industrial ruins, an idealized symbol of better times.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 3 July 2026
Reading words in legal texts divorced from fundamental moral values will not save us from tyranny.

— Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 2 July 2026

Definition of tyranny

Noun

Imagine the charge, the potency, of Russell’s argument for free expressions and inquiry to subjects of a theocratic dictatorship.

— Matt Thompson, SPIN, 8 July 2026
Library Hours Peruse the hardcovers at Livraria Ler, a haven for Lisbon literati since 1970 that, in its early years, secretly sold books banned by the country’s dictatorship.

— Adam Erace, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2026

Definition of dictatorship

Noun

Voters have already handed a good chunk of democracy itself over to nationalist, religious and ideological fascism.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026
The Soviet experience, on top of the rise of fascism, reminded my generation rather forcibly that man was, indeed, imperfect, and that the corruptions of power could unleash great evil in the world.

— David Brooks, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026

Definition of fascism

Noun

In spite of their original values of humanitarianism and neutrality, these organizations have been morally debased from within, using the language of human rights and international justice yet deploying it on behalf of autocracies and against the liberal democracies that created them.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
The background of the pitch is repression, autocracy, and corruption.

— Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 13 June 2026

Definition of autocracy

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