Get to know Totalitarianism better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like absolutism or autarchy.
Totalitarianism in a sentence
Totalitarianism meaning
A system of government in which the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control, for example, a dictatorship.
Synonyms of Totalitarianism
Using Totalitarianism
- The main meaning on this page is: A system of government in which the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control, for example, a dictatorship.
- Useful related words include: absolutism, political orientation, totalism, autarchy.
- In the example corpus, totalitarianism often appears in combinations such as: of totalitarianism, to totalitarianism, totalitarianism is.
Context around Totalitarianism
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Totalitarianism
- In this selection, "totalitarianism" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, soviet, theocratic, democratic, hence and regard stand out and add context to how "totalitarianism" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include acknowledge theocratic totalitarianism in the and against global totalitarianism. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "totalitarianism" sits close to words such as abingdon, abrahams and abuzz, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with totalitarianism
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This is the very definition of totalitarianism. (7 words)
We’ll be debating totalitarianism, not county taxes. (8 words)
Yet, society might reject totalitarianism and corporate plutocracy. (8 words)
Hong Kong represents all those aspects of an open society that Chinese communists, despite their professed confidence in their own technological totalitarianism, regard as an existential threat to the surveillance state they have created. (34 words)
Ms Truss will argue that her trip to the self-governed Pacific island, which she will herald as an “enduring rebuke to totalitarianism”, is about showing solidary with the Taiwanese people. (31 words)
Themes relating to totalitarianism were explored by Pink Floyd, who in the movie of their album The Wall depicted a rock star hallucinating that he was leading a fascist rally. (30 words)
But how can this be compared to totalitarianism -- in most people's eyes, a vicious, cruel, and repressive system? (19 words)
Example sentences (20)
The totalitarianism we live under today is not Soviet totalitarianism, but by Del Noce’s standard, it is totalitarianism all the same.
Totalitarianism is pretty effective at some tasks, at the cost of living under totalitarianism the other 98% of the time.
At the same time, we must be able to acknowledge theocratic totalitarianism in the Middle East without being misinterpreted as demonising the peaceful practice of Islam.
But how can this be compared to totalitarianism -- in most people's eyes, a vicious, cruel, and repressive system?
Gromyko was a trusted party leader, and Clinton – as the Democratic Party itself dies and fragments, has been a reliable standard bearer of left statism and democratic totalitarianism.
In addition, Professor Dauphinais warned that these bans are often a mark of totalitarianism.
It needs courage, nerve, and mettle to defeat totalitarianism hence the dire need to embrace dangerous freedom against the perpetual incarceration of Job Saro Wiwa Sikhala.
Ms Truss will argue that her trip to the self-governed Pacific island, which she will herald as an “enduring rebuke to totalitarianism”, is about showing solidary with the Taiwanese people.
The Left's tendency to redefine words to silence dissent is a clear tactic of totalitarianism, and conservatives need to fight back, Michael Farris warns.
Themes relating to totalitarianism were explored by Pink Floyd, who in the movie of their album The Wall depicted a rock star hallucinating that he was leading a fascist rally.
We’ll be debating totalitarianism, not county taxes.
Yet, society might reject totalitarianism and corporate plutocracy.
In 1958, she married “All Quiet On The Western Front” author, Erich Maria Remarque, who had fled Nazi totalitarianism in 1933.
In China, totalitarianism is increasing, not decreasing under Xi Jinping.
It certainly took balls (but not brains) to assert from the stage of the World Economic Forum (WEF) that free speech is cluttering up America’s march to totalitarianism.
The source of latest rush towards totalitarianism is the misleadingly titled Data Protection and Digital Information Bill.
This is the very definition of totalitarianism.
While HTS might have, over the last seven years or so, been conducting themselves as an authoritarian regime, it’s nowhere near the style of totalitarianism of the Assad regime.
He came to this land, because Berlin was the frontline against global totalitarianism.
Hong Kong represents all those aspects of an open society that Chinese communists, despite their professed confidence in their own technological totalitarianism, regard as an existential threat to the surveillance state they have created.
Common combinations with totalitarianism
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of totalitarianism 15×
- to totalitarianism 9×
- totalitarianism is 8×
- totalitarianism and 7×
- and totalitarianism 5×
- totalitarianism the 4×
- totalitarianism in 4×
- totalitarianism has 3×
- the totalitarianism 2×
- under totalitarianism 2×