TOTALITARIAN STATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does totalitarian state mean? 

• TOTALITARIAN STATE (noun)
  The noun TOTALITARIAN STATE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: TOTALITARIAN STATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOTALITARIAN STATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

totalitarian state; totalitation regime

Hypernyms ("totalitarian state" is a kind of...):

authorities; government; regime (the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)