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Definition: Totalitarian |
TotalitarianAdjective1. Characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control; "a totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul"- Arthur M.Schlesinger, Jr. 2. Of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life; "totalitarian theory and practice"; "operating in a totalistic fashion". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "totalitarian" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
Synonym: TotalitarianSynonym: totalistic (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Totalitarian |
| English words defined with "totalitarian": cellular ♦ Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili ♦ Joseph Stalin ♦ Orwellian ♦ Stalin ♦ Truman doctrine. (references) |
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Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | The fear of them alone might easily have been used to enforce totalitarian systems upon the free democratic world, with consequences appalling to human imagination. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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Civil Liberties | Russia | The 1997 Law on Freedom of Conscience targeted so-called totalitarian sects or dangerous religious cults and all religious organizations previously registered under the 1990 law to reregister or face liquidation. (references) |
Albania | However, the Constitution prohibits the formation of any political party or organization that is totalitarian; incites and supports racial, religious, or ethnic hatred; uses violence to take power or influence state policies; or is nontransparent or secretive in character. (references) | |
Economic History | Lithuania | Totalitarian rule was established, Sovietization of the economy and culture began, and Lithuanian state employees and public figures were arrested and exiled to Russia. (references) |
Human Rights | Romania | The Constitution provides for protection against the search of a residence without a warrant; however, this protection is subordinate to "national security or public order." The law defines national security very broadly and lists as threats not only crimes such as terrorism, treason, espionage, assassination, and armed insurrection but also totalitarian, racist, and anti-Semitic actions or attempts to change the existing national borders. (references) |
Political Economy | Cuba | The Ministry of Interior is the principal entity of state security and totalitarian control. (references) |
Cuba | Cuba is a totalitarian state controlled by President Fidel Castro, who is Chief of State, Head of Government, First Secretary of the Communist Party, and commander-in-chief of the armed forces. (references) | |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | The hard evidence of totalitarian rule has caused in mankind an uprising of the intellect and will. |
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| "Totalitarian" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.80% of the time. "Totalitarian" is used about 91 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.8% | 89 | 34,931 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.2% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 91 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "totalitarian": totalitarian regime. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "totalitarian": anti-totalitarian, non-totalitarian, quasi-totalitarian. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
totalitarian | 19 |
totalitarian government | 15 |
state totalitarian | 7 |
regime totalitarian | 4 |
country totalitarian | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "totalitarian"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | totalitar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نظام شمولي, إستبدادي (absolute, arbitrary, autocratic, dictatorial, imperial, tyrannical, tyrannous), شمولي (maximal), دكتاتوري (bossy, dictatorial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тоталитарен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | totalitní. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | یکه تاز, وابسته بحکومت یکه تازی , دارای حکومت مطلقه ودیکتاتوری . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | totalitaarinen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | totalitaire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | totalitär. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | απολυταρχικόσ (absolute, absolutist, authoritarian, autocratic, autocratical, despotic), ολοκληρωτικόσ (integral, thorough going). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | טוטליטרי, רו" י (despotic, dictatorial, imperious, tyrannical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | totalitárius, diktatórikus (dictatorial, magisterial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | totalitario. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 全"主義国 (totalitarian state). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぜ"たいしゅぎ"く (totalitarian state). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ooilley smaghtagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | otalitariantay totalitário. (various references) totalitar. (various references) тоталитарный. (various references) totalitaran. (various references) totalitario. (various references) totalitär, diktatur-, diktatorisk (authoritarian, dictatorial, magisterial, peremptory). (various references) totaliter, tek partili rejimle ilgili, bütüncül. (various references) тотальний (total), тоталітарний. (various references) chuyên chế (despotic, tyrannic, tyrannical, tyrannous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "totalitarian": totalitarianism, totalitarianisms, totalitarianize, totalitarianized, totalitarianizes, totalitarianizing, totalitarians. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "totalitarian": antitotalitarian, nontotalitarian. (additional references) | |
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"Totalitarian" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tolalitarian, totalatarian, totalitarion, totalitorian, totallitarian, tpotalitarian. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "totalitarian" (pronounced tō'ta'lute"rēun) |
| 9 | -a' l u t e" r ē u n | egalitarian. |
| 8 | -l u t e" r ē u n | proletarian, utilitarian. |
| 7 | -u t e" r ē u n | authoritarian, humanitarian, majoritarian, unitarian, vegetarian. |
| 6 | -t e" r ē u n | libertarian, nonsectarian, parliamentarian, sectarian. |
| 5 | -e" r ē u n | agrarian, barbarian, carrion, centenarian, Clarion, contrarian, disciplinarian, librarian, octogenarian, ovarian, planarian, seminarian, septuagenarian, veterinarian. |
| 4 | -r ē u n | centurion, criterion, Cyprian, equestrian, historian, hyperborean, pagurian, pedestrian, praetorian, presbyterian, salutatorian, valedictorian, valerian. |
| 3 | -ē u n | accordion, alien, amphibian, arcadian, bohemian, Campion, chameleon, champion, circadian, collodion, comedian, custodian, draconian, galleon, gorgonian, Guardian, halcyon, herculean, lesbian, mammalian, median, mediterranean, meridian, Napoleon, nickelodeon, oblivion, obsidian, Odeon, plutonian, scorpion, simian, subterranean, symbion, theologian, thespian, utopian. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-i-i-l-n-o-r-t-t-t" | |
-1 letter: attritional. | |
-2 letters: natatorial. | |
-3 letters: attrition, natatoria, titration. | |
-4 letters: antiriot, notarial, rational, tarlatan. | |
-5 letters: alation, antiair, arnatto, attaint, introit, ratatat, rattail, talaria, tantara, tartana, titania, titrant. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-i-i-l-n-o-r-t-t-t" | |
+1 letter: totalitarians. | |
+3 letters: antirationalist, antirationality, antitraditional, nontotalitarian, totalitarianism, totalitarianize. | |
+4 letters: antirationalists, antitotalitarian, totalitarianisms, totalitarianized, totalitarianizes, ultranationalist. | |
+5 letters: antirationalities, theatricalization, totalitarianizing, ultranationalists. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 6F 74 61 6C 69 74 61 72 69 61 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- --- - .- .-.. .. - .- .-. .. .- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101111 01110100 01100001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01100001 01110010 01101001 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T o t a l i t a r i a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 006F 0074 0061 006C 0069 0074 0061 0072 0069 0061 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)548186677875866784756780 |
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