The really frightening thing about totalitarianism is not that it commits "atrocities" but that it attacks the concept of objective truth; it claims to control the past as well as the future.
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Totalitarianism
Synonyms for "totalitarianism" (17 found)
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Noun(2 words)
Strong matches (5)
Noun(4 words)
Related words (8)
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5 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
3 entriesderived
1 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
66 translations across 56 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- totalitarizëm noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Arabic
1 entries- شُمُولِيَّة noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Armenian
1 entries- ամբողջատիրություն noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- totalitarizm noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Belarusian
1 entries- таталітары́зм noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Bulgarian
1 entries- тоталитари́зъм noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Catalan
1 entries- totalitarisme noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 全體主義 /全体主义 noun (system where state wields absolute control)
- 極權主義 /极权主义 noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Czech
1 entries- totalitarismus noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Danish
1 entries- totalitarisme noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Dutch
1 entries- totalitarisme noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Estonian
1 entries- totalitarism noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Finnish
1 entries- totalitarismi noun (system where state wields absolute control)
French
1 entries- totalitarisme noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Galician
1 entries- totalitarismo noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Georgian
1 entries- ტოტალიტარიზმი noun (system where state wields absolute control)
German
1 entries- Totalitarismus noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Greek
1 entries- ολοκληρωτισμός noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Hebrew
1 entries- טוֹטָלִיטָרִיזְם noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Hindi
1 entries- सर्वसत्तावाद noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Hungarian
1 entries- totalitarizmus noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Icelandic
2 entries- alræði noun (system where state wields absolute control)
- alræðisstefna noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Indonesian
2 entries- totalitarianisme noun (system where state wields absolute control)
- totaliterisme noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Irish
1 entries- ollsmachtachas noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Italian
1 entries- totalitarismo noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Japanese
1 entries- 全体主義 noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Kazakh
1 entries- тоталитаризм noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Khmer
2 entries- ផ្តាច់ការនិយម noun (system where state wields absolute control)
- សមស្តនិយម noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Korean
1 entries- 전체주의 noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- тоталитаризм noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Latvian
1 entries- totalitārisms noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Lithuanian
1 entries- totalitarizmas noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Macedonian
1 entries- тоталитари́зам noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Malay
1 entries- totalitarianisme noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Māori
1 entries- angangarengaretanga noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- totalîtarîzm noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- totalitarisme noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Persian
2 entries- تمامیتخواهی noun (system where state wields absolute control)
- توتالیتاریسم noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Polish
2 entries- totalitaryzm noun (system where state wields absolute control)
- totalizm noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Portuguese
1 entries- totalitarismo noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Romanian
1 entries- totalitarism noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Russian
1 entries- тоталитари́зм noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- totalitarìzam noun (system where state wields absolute control)
- тоталитарѝзам noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Slovak
1 entries- totalitarizmus noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Slovene
1 entries- totalitarizem noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Spanish
1 entries- totalitarismo noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Swedish
1 entries- totalitarism noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Tagalog
1 entries- totalitarismo noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Tajik
1 entries- тоталитаризм noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Thai
2 entries- ระบบรวบอำนาจเบ็ดเสร็จ noun (system where state wields absolute control)
- ลัทธิเผด็จการ noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Turkish
3 entries- bütüncüllük noun (system where state wields absolute control)
- totalitarizm noun (system where state wields absolute control)
- totaliterlik noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Turkmen
1 entries- totalitarizm noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Ukrainian
1 entries- тоталітари́зм noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Uzbek
1 entries- totalitarizm noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Vietnamese
1 entries- chủ nghĩa toàn trị noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Welsh
1 entries- totalitariaeth noun (system where state wields absolute control)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
Parenthood involves totalitarianism.
Source: tatoeba (5909537)
Totalitarianism is when people are mean to me.
Source: tatoeba (9698691)
The New World Order is an atheist new communist totalitarianism.
Source: tatoeba (11044372)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.