totalitarianism

Noun totalitarianism has 2 senses

• totalitarianism(n = noun.group) absolutism, authoritarianism, caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, stalinism, 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

• totalitarianism(n = noun.cognition) absolutism, totalism - the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government;
is a kind of ideology, political orientation, political theory