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. Jeffrey Tucker:

   It's like this machine that's just devouring the city with ever more controls, ever more absurd levels of despotism.

3. Ben Carson:

   I beg to differ, if you go back and look at the history of the world, tyranny and despotism and how it starts, it has a lot to do with control of thought and control of speech.

4. Joseph de Maistre:

   Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.

5. Marquis de Sade:

   If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.