Totalitarianism

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  totalitarianism
       n 1: a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute
            dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or
            opposition etc.) [syn: {dictatorship}, {absolutism}, {authoritarianism},
             {Caesarism}, {despotism}, {monocracy}, {one-man rule},
            {shogunate}, {Stalinism}, {tyranny}]


       2: the principle of complete and unrestricted power in
          government [syn: {absolutism}, {totalism}]