totalitarianism

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1938, from totalitarian + -ism, modeled after Italian totalitarismo (1923, by Giovanni Amendola) and German terms such as Totalstaat (1927, The Concept of the Political, by Carl Schmitt).

66 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: totalitarizëm — system where state wields absolute control
• Arabic: شُمُولِيَّة (šumūliyya) — system where state wields absolute control
• Armenian: ամբողջատիրություն (amboġǰatirutʻyun) — system where state wields absolute control
• Azerbaijani: totalitarizm — system where state wields absolute control
• Belarusian: таталітары́зм (tatalitarýzm) — system where state wields absolute control
• Bulgarian: тоталитари́зъм (totalitarízǎm) — system where state wields absolute control
• Catalan: totalitarisme — system where state wields absolute control
• Chinese Mandarin: 極權主義 /极权主义 (jíquánzhǔyì) — system where state wields absolute control
• Chinese Mandarin: 全體主義 /全体主义 (quántǐzhǔyì) — system where state wields absolute control
• Czech: totalitarismus — system where state wields absolute control
• Danish: totalitarisme — system where state wields absolute control
• Dutch: totalitarisme — system where state wields absolute control
• Estonian: totalitarism — system where state wields absolute control
• Finnish: totalitarismi — system where state wields absolute control
• French: totalitarisme — system where state wields absolute control
• Galician: totalitarismo — system where state wields absolute control
• Georgian: ტოტალიტარიზმი (ṭoṭaliṭarizmi) — system where state wields absolute control
• German: Totalitarismus — system where state wields absolute control
• Greek: ολοκληρωτισμός (oloklirotismós) — system where state wields absolute control
• Hebrew: טוֹטָלִיטָרִיזְם (totalitarízm) — system where state wields absolute control
• Hindi: सर्वसत्तावाद (sarvasattāvād) — system where state wields absolute control
• Hungarian: totalitarizmus — system where state wields absolute control
• Icelandic: alræði — system where state wields absolute control
• Icelandic: alræðisstefna — system where state wields absolute control
• Indonesian: totaliterisme — system where state wields absolute control
• Indonesian: totalitarianisme — system where state wields absolute control
• Irish: ollsmachtachas — system where state wields absolute control
• Italian: totalitarismo — system where state wields absolute control
• Japanese: 全体主義 (zentaishugi) — system where state wields absolute control
• Kazakh: тоталитаризм (totalitarizm) — system where state wields absolute control
• Khmer: សមស្តនិយម (saʼmaataʼniyum) — system where state wields absolute control
• Khmer: ផ្តាច់ការនិយម (phdac kaa niyum) — system where state wields absolute control
• Korean: 전체주의 (jeonchejuui) — system where state wields absolute control
• Northern Kurdish: totalîtarîzm — system where state wields absolute control
• Kyrgyz: тоталитаризм (totalitarizm) — system where state wields absolute control
• Latvian: totalitārisms — system where state wields absolute control
• Lithuanian: totalitarizmas — system where state wields absolute control
• Macedonian: тоталитари́зам (totalitarízam) — system where state wields absolute control
• Malay: totalitarianisme — system where state wields absolute control
• Māori: angangarengaretanga — system where state wields absolute control
• Norwegian Bokmål: totalitarisme — system where state wields absolute control
• Persian: تمامیتخواهی (tamâmit-xâhi) — system where state wields absolute control
• Persian: توتالیتاریسم (totâlitârisem) — system where state wields absolute control
• Polish: totalitaryzm — system where state wields absolute control
• Polish: totalizm — system where state wields absolute control
• Portuguese: totalitarismo — system where state wields absolute control
• Romanian: totalitarism — system where state wields absolute control
• Russian: тоталитари́зм (totalitarízm) — system where state wields absolute control
• Serbo-Croatian: тоталитарѝзам — system where state wields absolute control
• Serbo-Croatian: totalitarìzam — system where state wields absolute control
• Slovak: totalitarizmus — system where state wields absolute control
• Slovene: totalitarizem — system where state wields absolute control
• Spanish: totalitarismo — system where state wields absolute control
• Swedish: totalitarism — system where state wields absolute control
• Tagalog: totalitarismo — system where state wields absolute control
• Tajik: тоталитаризм (totalitarizm) — system where state wields absolute control
• Thai: ระบบรวบอํานาจเบ็ดเสร็จ (rá-bòp-rûuap-am-nâat-bèt-sèt) — system where state wields absolute control
• Thai: ลัทธิเผด็จการ (lát-tí-pà-dèt-gaan) — system where state wields absolute control
• Turkish: bütüncüllük — system where state wields absolute control
• Turkish: totaliterlik — system where state wields absolute control
• Turkish: totalitarizm — system where state wields absolute control
• Turkmen: totalitarizm — system where state wields absolute control
• Ukrainian: тоталітари́зм (totalitarýzm) — system where state wields absolute control
• Uzbek: totalitarizm — system where state wields absolute control
• Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa toàn trị — system where state wields absolute control
• Welsh: totalitariaeth — system where state wields absolute control