totalitarianism

Etymology
1938, from, modeled after (1923, by ) and  terms such as  (1927, , by ).

Noun

 * 1) A system of government in which the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control, for example, a dictatorship.

Usage notes
Contentious usage: precise definition, application to specific cases, and distinction from similar terms varies by author. Narrowly, a government in which everything is political and controlled by the state, coined to describe, in contrast to the older terms and concepts of , , and , which focus more on centralization of power, not its pervasiveness. Later applied to the in general and  in particular by  and either,  or authoritarian communism by other  and , to emphasize its commonalities with fascism and. Sometimes considered an extreme form of, in other cases contrasted with it.

Translations

 * Albanian: totalitarizëm
 * Arabic: شُمُولِيَّة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: totalitarizm
 * Belarusian: таталітары́зм
 * Bulgarian: тоталитари́зъм
 * Catalan: totalitarisme
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: totalitarisme
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: totalitarism
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ტოტალიტარიზმი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: सर्वसत्तावाद
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, alræðisstefna
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: ollsmachtachas
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: тоталитаризм
 * Khmer: សមស្តនិយម, ផ្តាច់ការនិយម
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: тоталитаризм
 * Latvian: totalitārisms
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: тоталитари́зам
 * Malay: totalitarianisme
 * Maori: angangarengaretanga
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: totalitarisme
 * Persian: تمامیت‌خواهی, توتالیتاریسم
 * Polish:, totalizm
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: тоталитарѝзам
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: totalitarizmus
 * Slovene: totalitarizem
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: totalitarismo
 * Tajik: тоталитаризм
 * Thai: ระบบรวบอำนาจเบ็ดเสร็จ, ลัทธิเผด็จการ
 * Turkish:, totaliterlik,
 * Turkmen: totalitarizm
 * Ukrainian: тоталітари́зм
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa toàn trị
 * Welsh: totalitariaeth