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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
Hannah Arendt

Meaning of "totalitarianism" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TOTALITARIANISM

totalitarianism  [təʊˌtælɪˈtɛərɪənɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TOTALITARIANISM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Totalitarianism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TOTALITARIANISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism or totalitarian state is a concept used by some political scientists to describe a political system in which the state holds total authority over the society and seeks to control all aspects of public and private life wherever possible. The concept of totalitarianism was first developed in a positive sense in the 1920s by the Weimar German jurist, and later Nazi academic, Carl Schmitt and Italian fascists. Schmitt used the term, Totalstaat in his influential work on the legal basis of an all-powerful state. The concept became prominent in Western anti-communist political discourse during the Cold War era, in order to highlight perceived similarities between Nazi Germany and other Fascist states on the one hand, and Soviet Communist Party states on the other. Other movements and governments have also been described as totalitarian. The leader of the historic Spanish reactionary conservative movement called the Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right declared his intention to "give Spain a true unity, a new spirit, a totalitarian polity..." and went on to say "Democracy is not an end but a means to the conquest of the new state.

Definition of totalitarianism in the English dictionary

The definition of totalitarianism in the dictionary is the advocacy or practise of totalitarian policies.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TOTALITARIANISM


agrarianism
əˈɡrɛərɪənɪzəm
antinomianism
ˌæntɪˈnəʊmɪənɪzəm
antiquarianism
ˌæntɪˈkweərɪənɪzəm
Aristotelianism
ˌærɪstəˈtiːlɪənɪzəm
authoritarianism
ɔːˌθɒrɪˈtɛərɪənɪzəm
Cartesianism
kɑːˈtiːzɪənɪzəm
egalitarianism
ɪˌɡælɪˈteərɪənɪzəm
epicureanism
ˌɛpɪkjʊəˈrɪənɪzəm
equestrianism
ɪˈkwɛstrɪənɪzəm
Europeanism
ˌjʊərəˈpɪənɪzəm
Hegelianism
hɪˈɡeɪlɪənɪzəm
Kantianism
ˈkæntɪənɪzəm
lesbianism
ˈlɛzbɪənɪzəm
libertarianism
ˌlɪbəˈtɛərɪənɪzəm
Machiavellianism
ˌmækɪəˈvelɪənɪzəm
messianism
mɛˈsaɪənɪzəm
pedestrianism
pəˈdɛstrɪənɪzəm
presbyterianism
ˌprɛzbɪˈtɪərɪənɪzəm
Rastafarianism
ˌræstəˈfɛərɪənɪzəm
Trinitarianism
ˌtrɪnɪˈtɛərɪənɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TOTALITARIANISM

total serialization
totalisation
totalisator
totalise
totaliser
totalism
totalist
totalistic
totalitarian
totalitarianise
totalitarianize
totalities
totality
totalization
totalizator
totalize
totalizer
totalled
totalling
totally

WORDS THAT END LIKE TOTALITARIANISM

Anglicanism
Confucianism
coping mechanism
defence mechanism
Exchange Rate Mechanism
hedonism
hooliganism
humanism
humanitarianism
mechanism
microorganism
New Urbanism
organism
paganism
Pan-Africanism
safety mechanism
Satanism
shamanism
urbanism
veganism
vegetarianism

Synonyms and antonyms of totalitarianism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «totalitarianism» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TOTALITARIANISM

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

Translator English - Chinese

极权主义
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

totalitarismo
570 millions of speakers

English

totalitarianism
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अधिनायकवाद
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الشمولية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тоталитаризм
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

totalitarismo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সর্বগ্রাসী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

totalitarisme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Totalitarianisme
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Totalitarismus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

全体主義
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

전체주의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Totalitarianisme
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chế độ độc tài
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சர்வாதிகாரத்தின்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

एकपक्षीय धर्म
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

totaliterlik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

totalitarismo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

totalitaryzm
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тоталітаризм
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

totalitarism
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ολοκληρωτισμό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

totalitarisme
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

totalitarism
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

totalitarisme
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of totalitarianism

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TOTALITARIANISM»

The term «totalitarianism» is regularly used and occupies the 71.538 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TOTALITARIANISM» OVER TIME

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

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10 QUOTES WITH «TOTALITARIANISM»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word totalitarianism.
1
Steve Allen
Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.
2
Barbara Amiel
Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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Hannah Arendt
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
4
Rocco Buttiglione
The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all.
5
Ahmed Chalabi
It will be a war of national liberation. We believe the people reject totalitarianism.
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Patrick Chappatte
A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on the West. The same way that they veil women, Islamic radicals want to veil cartoons in the press.
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Milos Forman
Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.
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Alexander Haig
To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.
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Lance Henriksen
Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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Steven Pinker
The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOTALITARIANISM»

Discover the use of totalitarianism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to totalitarianism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Totalitarianism
By analyzing Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and the Soviet Union under Stalin the author attempts to determine if totalitarianism is a separate political genre or a subset of authoritarian government and what its basic characteristics are
Michael Curtis, 1979
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the ...
Hannah Arendt, 1973
3
Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism
Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt. The camps and the murder of political adversaries are only part of organized oblivion that not only embraces carriers of public opinion such as the spoken and the written word, but  ...
Hannah Arendt, 1968
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Totalitarianism
Introduces totalitarianism, discusses the social, political, economic, religious, and cultural effects, and examines various totalitarian leaders' ideas.
Linda Cernak, 2011
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Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?: Five Interventions in the ...
Totalitarianism, as an ideological notion, guarantees the liberal-democratic hegemony by dismissing the Leftist critique of liberal democracy.
Slavoj Zizek, Slavoj Žižek, 2002
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Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences
This book examines the nature of totalitarianism as interpreted by some of the finest minds of the twentieth century.
Peter Baehr, 2010
7
Totalitarianism and Political Religion: An Intellectual History
The totalitarian systems that arose in the twentieth century presented themselves as secular. Yet, as A. James Gregor argues in this book, they themselves functioned as religions.
A. Gregor, 2012
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Between Totalitarianism and Postmodernity: A Thesis Eleven ...
These thirteen articles provide theoretical and historically informed analyses of thepowerful currents that are shaping the late twentieth-century political and culturallandscape.
Peter Beilharz, Gillian Robinson, John F. Rundell, 1992
9
Fascism, Totalitarianism and Political Religion
In this volume a number of international experts on individual variants of fascism explore the link between a particular totalitarian movement or regime and the concrete historical phenomena it produced.
Roger Griffin, 2013
10
Velvet Totalitarianism: Post-Stalinist Romania
This book introduces students and the general public to the post-Stalinist phase of totalitarianism, focusing on Romania under the Ceausescu dictatorship, through the dual optic of scholarship and fiction, in a story about a family ...
Claudia Moscovici, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TOTALITARIANISM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term totalitarianism is used in the context of the following news items.
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Examples of the New Totalitarianism
RUSH: Now I want to go back to the rest of the new totalitarian piece and give you some examples of it. And it has been suggested to me that I ask all of you to ... «RushLimbaugh.com, Jul 15»
2
For Your Consideration: A Darker Shade of Totalitarianism
It would appear that the Nation is moving ever closer to a dictatorship, but the electorate's attention seems to be on other things, this state of affairs should be of ... «Island Gazette, Jun 15»
3
Thomas Sowell: Nation is creating climate of micro-totalitarianism
Professors at UC Berkeley have been officially warned against saying such things as "America is the land of opportunity." Why? Because this is considered to be ... «Contra Costa Times, Jun 15»
4
Russia's totalitarianism 2.0
This recalls the American political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski's observation in the 1950s that totalitarian regimes (in contrast to authoritarian ones) impose both ... «The Japan Times, Jun 15»
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Micro-Totalitarianism
Professors at the University of California at Berkeley have been officially warned against saying such things as "America is the land of opportunity." Why? «RealClearPolitics, Jun 15»
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Totalitarianism on Campus: UC Professors Instructed Not to Say …
If I didn't know any better, I would say that this article at The College Fix is clever satire, but what is going on under University of California President Janet ... «PJ Media, Jun 15»
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Bulgaria parliament chair attended ceremony to honour memory of …
Belene. Tsetka Tsacheva, Chairperson of Bulgaria's National Assembly, took part Saturday in a ceremony at which the memory of totalitarianism victims will be ... «Focus News, May 15»
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Tolerance and Totalitarianism
A disturbing trend is sweeping across American colleges and universities under the guise of protecting students from allegedly offensive speech -- defined ... «Huffington Post, May 15»
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Ukraine Today: Ukraine's plan to create a museum of totalitarianism
A file photo taken in July 1997, shows a municipal worker cleaning Soviet stars of the top of Ukraina Hotel in Moscow. Russia marks 07 November 2007 the 90th ... «Kyiv Post, Apr 15»
10
The Next Step in Progressive Totalitarianism?
A month ago, I took a stab at answering Ross Douthat's questions about what awaits us down the path that progressivism wants to take this country. «National Review Online, Apr 15»

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