Synonyms of fascism

fascism

noun

as in tyranny

rule, control, or leadership by one person with absolute power

A soaring crime rate and civil unrest were harbingers to the rise of fascism in the country.

Related Words

• tyranny
• authoritarianism
• dictatorship
• totalitarianism
• oppression
• autocracy
• despotism
• absolutism
• totalism
• Big Brother
• Caesarism
• autarchy
• Big Brotherism
• Communism
• monarchy
• monarchism
• czarism
• monocracy
• domination
• Nazism

Dissimilar Words

• democracy
• freedom
• self-government
• self-rule
• self-governance
• sovereignty
• autonomy
• self-determination

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of fascism

If anything, the film is more embarrassing than incendiary, and its unexamined message — that privileged, straight people can still fall in love under fascism — is, technically, true. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Aug. 2026

Brogin, who said at the time that the law was akin to fascism, fought the city, unsuccessfully. — Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026

Others, though—Cahun and Moore, but also Victor Brauner—saw how fascism was inextricable from patriarchal power, and sought to free themselves from the confines of gender altogether. — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 17 July 2026

Voters have already handed a good chunk of democracy itself over to nationalist, religious and ideological fascism. — Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026