different between theocracy vs fascism

English

Etymology

theo- +? -cracy, originally from Ancient Greek ????????? (theokratía, “rule of (a) God”), a term coined in the 1st century by Josephus (Against Apion 2.17) in reference to the kingdom of Israel. Attested in English from the 1630s, first by John Donne in a 1631 sermon: The Jews were onely under a Theocratie, an immediate government of God.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i???k??s?/
• Homophone: theocrasy

Noun

theocracy (countable and uncountable, plural theocracies)

1. Government under the control of a state-sponsored religion.

   Tibet was a Buddhist theocracy ruled by the Dalai Lama.

2. Rule by a god.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:theocracy.

Hyponyms

• sharia law

Related terms

• theocrat
• theocratic

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• Fascism

Etymology

1922, from Italian fascismo (from fascio (“bundle, fasces”), from Latin fasces ultimately with reference to the fasces or bundles of axes and rods carried before the magistrates of ancient Rome in token of their power of life and death). Originally only applied (usually capitalized) to Benito Mussolini's Italy which used a representation of the ancient fasces as its emblem.

Pronunciation

• enPR: f?sh'?z(?)m, IPA^(key): /?fæ??z(?)m/

Noun

fascism (usually uncountable, plural fascisms)

1. Any right-wing, authoritarian, nationalist ideology characterized by centralized, totalitarian governance, strong regimentation of the economy and of society, and repression of criticism or opposition.
2. (by extension) Any system of strong autocracy or oligarchy usually to the extent of bending and breaking the law, race-baiting, and/or violence against largely unarmed populations.

   Hyponyms: alt-right, Falangism, Kahanism, Nazism

Antonyms

• antifascism
• anti-fascism

Derived terms

Related terms

• fascist
• fascistic
• fascistical
• fascistically

Translations

See also

• authoritarianism
• blackshirt
• Brownshirt
• collectivism
• communism, Communism
• globalism
• internationalism
• international socialism
• nationalism
• national socialism, National Socialism, Naziism, Nazism
• socialism
• statism
• totalitarianism

Further reading

• fascism at OneLook Dictionary Search
• fascism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia