different between totalitarian vs autocracy

English

Etymology

From Italian totalitario (“complete, absolute, totalitarian”) +? -an. Equivalent to totality +? -arian.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??t?l??t??i?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?to?t?l??t???i?n/
• Rhymes: -??ri?n

Adjective

totalitarian (comparative more totalitarian, superlative most totalitarian)

1. Of or relating to a system of government where the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control of every aspect of the country, socially, financially and politically.

Translations

Noun

totalitarian (plural totalitarians)

1. An advocate of totalitarianism.

Related terms

• totalitarianism

English

Etymology

From auto- +? -cracy, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (autokratía, “A system of government by one person with absolute power.”), from ????? (autós, “single, self, same, alone”) + ?????? (krátos, “power”) + -?? (-ía, “feminine abstract nouns suffix”); see also Ancient Greek ?????????? (autokrat?s, “one who governs alone”)

Noun

autocracy (countable and uncountable, plural autocracies)

1. (uncountable) A form of government in which unlimited power is held by a single individual.
2. (countable) An instance of this government.

Synonyms

• (rule): See Thesaurus:government

Coordinate terms

• (rule): See Thesaurus:government

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