FASCISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fascism mean? 

• FASCISM (noun)
  The noun FASCISM has 1 sense:

1. a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)

  Familiarity information: FASCISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FASCISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("fascism" is a kind of...):

ideology; political orientation; political theory (an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fascism"):

national socialism; Naziism; Nazism (a form of socialism featuring racism and expansionism and obedience to a strong leader)

Derivation:

fascist (an adherent of fascism or other authoritarian views)

fascistic (relating to or characteristic of fascism)