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Meaning of "totalist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TOTALIST

totalist  [ˈtəʊtəlɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TOTALIST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Totalist is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES TOTALIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Totalism

In music, totalism is a term for a style of art music that arose in the 1980s and 1990s as a developing response to minimalism—parallel to postminimalism, but generally among a slightly younger generation, born in the 1950s. In the early 1980s, many young composers began writing music within the static confines of minimalism, but using greater rhythmic complexity, often with two or more tempos audible at once. The style acquired a name around 1990, when it became evident to composers working in New York City that a number of them—John Luther Adams, Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham, Kyle Gann, Michael Gordon, Arthur Jarvinen, Diana Meckley, Ben Neill, Larry Polansky, Mikel Rouse, Evan Ziporyn, among others—were employing similar types of global tempo structures in their music. The term totalist refers to the aims of the music, in trying to have enough surface rhythmic energy, but also to contain enough background complexity. There is also an echo in the term of serialism's "total organization," here drawn not from the 12-tone row, but from Henry Cowell's theories about using the same structuring devices for rhythm that have been traditionally used for pitch.

Definition of totalist in the English dictionary

The definition of totalist in the dictionary is of or relating to the aims of the music of totalism.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TOTALIST


anticapitalist
ˌæntɪˈkæpɪtəlɪst
biocatalyst
ˌbaɪəʊˈkætəlɪst
brutalist
ˈbruːtəlɪst
capitalist
ˈkæpɪtəlɪst
catalyst
ˈkætəlɪst
documentalist
ˌdɒkjʊˈmɛntəlɪst
environmentalist
ɪnˌvaɪrənˈmɛntəlɪst
fatalist
ˈfeɪtəlɪst
fundamentalist
ˌfʌndəˈmentəlɪst
instrumentalist
ˌɪnstrəˈmɛntəlɪst
mentalist
ˈmentəlɪst
metalist
ˈmetəlɪst
metallist
ˈmɛtəlɪst
Orientalist
ˌɔːrɪˈɛntəlɪst
philatelist
fɪˈlætəlɪst
sacerdotalist
ˌsæsəˈdəʊtəlɪst
sentimentalist
ˌsɛntɪˈmɛntəlɪst
teetotalist
ˌtiːˈtəʊtəlɪst
titlist
ˈtaɪtəlɪst
transcendentalist
ˌtrænsɛnˈdɛntəlɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TOTALIST

total quality management
total recall
total serialism
total serialization
totalisation
totalisator
totalise
totaliser
totalism
totalistic
totalitarian
totalitarianise
totalitarianism
totalitarianize
totalities
totality
totalization
totalizator
totalize
totalizer

WORDS THAT END LIKE TOTALIST

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centralist
Federalist
finalist
generalist
herbalist
hospitalist
idealist
journalist
minimalist
nationalist
naturalist
photojournalist
realist
removalist
sensationalist
serialist
socialist
specialist
surrealist
vocalist

Synonyms and antonyms of totalist in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «totalist» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TOTALIST

Find out the translation of totalist to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of totalist from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «totalist» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

极权
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

totalista
570 millions of speakers

English

totalist
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

totalist
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

totalist
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Тоталитарная
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

totalista
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

totalist
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

totaliste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Totalis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

totalitären
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

totalist
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

totalist
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Totalist
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

totalist
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

totalist
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

एकूण सैनिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

totalist
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

totalitario
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

totalist
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тоталітарна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

totalist
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

totalist
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

totalist
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

totalist
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

totalist
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of totalist

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TOTALIST»

The term «totalist» is used very little and occupies the 169.182 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TOTALIST» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about totalist

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOTALIST»

Discover the use of totalist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to totalist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Trauma and Self
Sacred science: The totalist world is the ultimate moral vision. "To dare to criticize it, or to harbor even unspoken alternative ideas, becomes not only immoral and irreverent, but also 'unscientific.' In this way, the philosopher kings of modern ...
Charles B. Strozier, Michael Flynn, 1996
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The Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and ...
Furthermore, the distinction between real and distorted Countertransference responses was rejected as a false one. A new definition, variously termed "totalist " or "objective" Countertransference, broadened Countertransference to include the ...
W. Edward Craighead, Charles B. Nemeroff, 2004
3
Misunderstanding Cults: Searching for Objectivity in a ...
Totalist. Groups. Amy. Siskind. Cults as Total Institutions There has been much social scientific misunderstanding of child rearing in those groups commonly referred to as cults, new religious movements, high-demand movements, or totalistic ...
Thomas Robbins, Benjamin David Zablocki, 2001
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Non-Governmental Organisations in China
Two most important theoretical contributions by Chinese scholars are the concepts of the 'post-totalist society' and the 'dual nature of Chinese NGOs'. In their book on the fundraising strategies of the China Youth Development Foundation ...
Yiyi Lu, 2008
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Attachment, Networks and Discourse in Extremist Political ...
Alexandra Isobel Stein. daily interactions. Totalist systems, while they may be residential communities or formal organizations, do not require these attributes as part of their definition. They do, however share with Goffman's total institutions the ...
Alexandra Isobel Stein, 2007
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The War Puzzle Revisited
public statements and memoirs should permit analysts to classify the goals of participants in a war as either limited or totalist. Limited goals can be operationalized as those confined to marginal changes in territorial, economic, or political rights ...
John A. Vasquez, 2009
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The War Puzzle
Of course, what is typical of totalist goals is that they evolve in that direction, as is best illustrated in World War I, so that the most reliable classification is going to be made ex post facto. Nevertheless, it would be possible to code the different ...
John A. Vasquez, 1993
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Music Downtown: Writings from the Village Voice
Ergo, totalist music always has a steady beat — more likely, a plurality of steady beats. What passes for rhythmic subtlety with Elliott Carter and his followers is a mishmash because their music never articulates the grid against which ...
Kyle Gann, 2006
9
W. H. Lingard's On the Beach at Long Branch. Song Book, ...
THE. TEE-TOTALIST. 111. He popt her in a coffin, and bade them nail it fast; In funeral array to the parish church they pass'd. Says Simpkin, “ To the church-yard I ll follow at my leisure, For why, my friends, should I make a labor of a pleasurei ...
William Horace LINGARD, 1868
10
19th Natural Philosophy Alliance Proceedings
milieu control the totalist environment seeks to establish domain over not only the individual's communication with the outside (all that he sees and hears, reads and writes, experiences, and expresses), but also — in its penetration of his inner  ...
Greg Volk

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TOTALIST»

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It ignores that one of the great functions of art may be to escape from the imperative that all creative expression ultimately be instructive, a totalist inperative that ... «Hot Air, Jun 15»
2
Hating Valentine's
The puritanical nature of totalist systems (whether Fascist, Communist, or Islamist) is another manifestation of this phenomenon. In Stalinist Russia, sexual ... «FrontPage Magazine, Feb 15»
3
Left Unity's John Tummon and Leftist Support for Jihad
Like Marxism, Islam offers “totalist” (to use a word from post-structuralism) solutions to.... well, all problems. And Leftists, like most Muslims, like that. Many Leftists ... «American Thinker, Nov 14»
4
Jaron Lanier on Transhumanism
I share the belief of my cybernetic totalist colleagues that there will be huge and sudden changes in the near future brought about by technology. The difference ... «h+ Magazine, Jul 14»
5
Russell Kirk vs. the Libertarians
They set their faces against the totalist state and the heavy hand of bureaucracy. This is true and good as far as it goes. However, in the next paragraph Kirk ... «American Thinker, Jul 14»
6
Life after Death in North Korea
It is the closest imagining of a 'hell on earth' by a totalist regime that I have come across. What is worse – you can be born into it. In this way, the 'afterlife' in North ... «The London Economic, May 14»
7
Putin Moves Against the Press
After decades of totalist censorship, after art, history, science, journalism, philosophy, and so much else had languished under the state, Gorbachev, particularly ... «New Yorker, Mar 14»
8
Gay Rights and Putin's Olympics
(Putin's system of targeted censorship is far less expensive than the totalist Soviet version.) Two Moscow city magazines, Afisha and Bolshoi Gorod (Big City), ... «New Yorker, Dec 13»
9
Why Chomsky Hates Soccer & Soaps
All this demonstrates the totalitarian -- or 'totalist' (as hip philosophers put it) ... to have taken umbrage to Chomsky's extreme and totalist critiques of soccer. «American Thinker, Oct 13»
10
Book review: You Are Not a Gadget, by Jaron Lanier
The "cybernetic totalists" base their thinking on decades-old ideas known as "chaos" or "complexity" theory, which began with a question about ants: How does ... «Washington Post, Feb 10»

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