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Synonyms & Antonyms of totalism
a system of government in which the ruler has unlimited power
- warned that forfeiture of civil liberties for the sake of security would only result in the terror of totalism
Synonyms for totalism
- absolutism,
- autarchy,
- authoritarianism,
- autocracy,
- Caesarism,
- czarism
- (also tsarism or tzarism),
- despotism,
- dictatorship,
- totalitarianism,
- tyranny
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The first known use of totalism was in 1941
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