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noun a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
noun the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government
origin1938, from totalitarian + -ism, modeled after Italian totalitarismo (1923, by Giovanni Amendola) and German terms such as Totalstaat (1927, The Concept of the Political, by Carl Schmitt).
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