totalitarian state

1. 1.

   a government that subordinates the individual to the state and strictly controls all aspects of life by coercive measures

   Synonymstotalitation regime

   Broadergovernment

Questions about totalitarian state

What does totalitarian state mean?

totalitarian state means "a government that subordinates the individual to the state and strictly controls all aspects of life by coercive measures".

What is another word for totalitarian state?

Close synonyms include totalitation regime. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is totalitarian state a common word?

totalitarian state is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.