absolutism

Meanings

Plural: absolutisms

Noun

• dominance through threat of punishment and violence
• a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
• the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government
• the doctrine of an absolute being
• Doctrine of preordination; doctrine of absolute decrees; doctrine that God acts in an absolute manner.
• The principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; Synonym of despotism.
• Belief in a metaphysical absolute; belief in Absolute.
• Positiveness; the state of being absolute.
• The characteristic of being absolute in nature or scope; absoluteness.

Synonyms

authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalism, totalitarianism, tyranny

Related Words

autocracy, dictatorship, strongman