authoritarianism

Noun authoritarianism has 1 sense

• authoritarianism(n = noun.group) absolutism, caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny - a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.);
is a kind of autarchy, autocracy
has particulars: police state