We found 3 definitions of absolutisms from 2 different sources.
NounPlural: absolutisms |
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absolutism - dominance through threat of punishment and violence | ||
tyranny, despotism | ||
ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, dominance, control the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not | ||
absolutism - the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government | ||
totalitarianism, totalism | ||
political orientation, political theory, ideology an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation | ||
absolutism - the doctrine of an absolute being | ||
absolutism - a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | ||
dictatorship, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny | ||
autarchy, autocracy a political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual |