Totalitarian - Definition
totalitarian
adj 1: 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"- Arthur
M.Schlesinger, Jr.
2: 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" [syn: totalitarian, totalistic]
n 1: an adherent of totalitarian principles or totalitarian
government