We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.
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Absolutism
//ˈæb.səˌluˌtɪz.m̩//
Synonyms for "absolutism" (83 found)
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Related words (41)
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7 entriesTranslations
39 translations across 25 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- աբսոլյուտիզմ noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
Bulgarian
1 entries- абсолюти́зъм noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
Catalan
1 entries- absolutisme noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
Czech
1 entries- absolutismus noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
Danish
2 entries- absolutisme noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
- enevælde noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
Dutch
4 entries- absolutisme noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
- absolutisme noun (belief in a metaphysical absolute)
- alleenheerschappij noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
- predestinatieleer noun (theology: doctrine of preordination; doctrine of absolute decrees)
Eastern Mari
1 entries- абсолютизм noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
Esperanto
1 entries- absolutismo noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
Finnish
2 entries- absolutismi noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
- absolutismi noun (belief in a metaphysical absolute)
French
1 entries- absolutisme noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
Georgian
1 entries- აბსოლუტიზმი noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
German
1 entries- Absolutismus noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
Greek
4 entries- απολυταρχία noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
- απολυτοκρατία noun (belief in a metaphysical absolute)
- απολυτότητα noun (the state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute or unconditional)
- απόλυτο noun (the state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute or unconditional)
Hungarian
1 entries- abszolutizmus noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
Indonesian
1 entries- absolutisme noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
Italian
1 entries- assolutismo noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- absolutisme noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
- absolutisme noun (belief in a metaphysical absolute)
- enevelde noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- absolutisme noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
Polish
2 entries- absolutyzm noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
- absolutyzm noun (belief in a metaphysical absolute)
Portuguese
1 entries- absolutismo noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
Romanian
1 entries- absolutism noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
Russian
1 entries- абсолюти́зм noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- apsolutizam noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
- апсолутизам noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
Spanish
1 entries- absolutismo noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
Swedish
3 entries- absolutism noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
- despotism noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
- envälde noun (political science: absolute or arbitrary government; despotism)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
The element of absolutism and prelacy was more controlling in the counsels of the rival corporation.
Source: wiktionary
As absolutism became more consolidated in Europe, and particularly in France, such nonabsolutist states tended to define themselves in opposition to their absolutist rivals: hence, those features of their government which differed from absolutism tended to be given special prominence.
Source: wiktionary
It was the absolutism of his ambition to be a perfect writer (and perhaps also the perfect son) that imperiled him.
Source: wiktionary
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