Synonyms for despotism
ˈdɛs pəˌtɪz əmdespo·tism

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1. despotismnoun

   Synonyms:
   tyranny

2. despotismnoun

   government by a singular authority, either a single person or tight-knit group, which rules with absolute power

   Synonyms:
   tyranny

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1. absolutism, tyranny, despotismnoun

   dominance through threat of punishment and violence

   Synonyms:
   shogunate, totalism, dictatorship, authoritarianism, one-man rule, absolutism, tyranny, monocracy, totalitarianism

2. dictatorship, absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyrannynoun

   a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

   Synonyms:
   shogunate, totalism, dictatorship, authoritarianism, one-man rule, tyranny, absolutism, monocracy, totalitarianism

Matched Categories

1. • Autocracy
   • Dominance

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1. despotismnoun

   Synonyms:
   autocracy, absolutism, dictatorship, tyranny, absolute power, arbitrary rule

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1. despotismnoun

   Synonyms:
   absolutism, autocracy, tyranny

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1. List of paraphrases for "despotism":

   high-handedness, arbitrariness, tyranny, authoritarianism

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1. Joseph Addison:

   Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

2. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:

   The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

3. Mary McCarthy:

   Bureaucracy, the rule of no one has become the modern form of despotism.

4. Friedrich Nietzsche:

   Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government.

5. Herbert Spencer:

   If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making