authoritarianism

Meanings

• a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

Synonyms

• dictatorship
• absolutism
• Caesarism
• despotism
• monocracy
• one-man rule
• shogunate
• Stalinism
• totalitarianism
• tyranny

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