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say it: toh-tal-i-TER-ee-uhn
totalitarian is an adjective and noun meaning "characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control". It is pronounced /ˌtoʊˌtælɪˈtɛɹiən/ — toh-tal-i-TER-ee-uhn. It carries 3 recorded senses.
characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control
“a totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul”
of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life
“totalitarian theory and practice”
“operating in a totalistic fashion”
an adherent of totalitarian principles or totalitarian government
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for totalitarian come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.