| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | to·tal·i·tar·i·an |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  t -t l  -târ  - n |
| ADJECTIVE: | Of, relating to, being, or imposing a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed: “A totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul” (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.). | | NOUN: | A practitioner or supporter of such a government. | | ETYMOLOGY: | total + (author)itarian. | | OTHER FORMS: | to·tali·tari·an·ism —NOUN
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