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absolutism

[ ab-suh-loo-tiz-uhm ]

noun

  1. the principle or the exercise of complete and unrestricted power in government.

    Synonyms: totalitarianism

  2. any theory holding that values, principles, etc., are absolute and not relative, dependent, or changeable.


absolutism

/ ˈæbsəluːˌtɪzəm /

noun

  1. the principle or practice of a political system in which unrestricted power is vested in a monarch, dictator, etc; despotism
  2. philosophy
    1. any theory which holds that truth or moral or aesthetic value is absolute and universal and not relative to individual or social differences Compare relativism
    2. the doctrine that reality is unitary and unchanging and that change and diversity are mere illusion See also monism pluralism
  3. Christianity an uncompromising form of the doctrine of predestination
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈabsoˌlutist, nounadjective
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Other Words From

  • abso·lutist noun adjective
  • abso·lu·tistic adjective
  • abso·lu·tisti·cal·ly adverb
  • non·abso·lutist noun
  • nonab·so·lu·tistic adjective
  • nonab·so·lu·tisti·cal·ly adverb
  • pro·abso·lutism noun
  • pro·abso·lutist adjective noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of absolutism1

First recorded in 1745–55
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Example Sentences

Not driven by ideology or absolutism, Sean is a leader who prizes progressive pragmatism and believes a government that reflects the diversity of America will perform best for its people.

Additional foundational principles of militia constitutionalism include absolutism.

The Russian Revolution summed everything up in an instant: in place of dynastic rule, absolutism of a different kind.

The play-to-the-base impulse is girded by a righteous certainty that can lead to at best impracticality and at worst absolutism.

What are some great works of literature that you admire for their ability to combat dictatorship and absolutism?

We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.

This is self-government committing economic suicide, putting ideological absolutism ahead of solving problems.

The patriotism of the Japanese is blind and unswerving loyalty to what is practically an absolutism.

The King wished to save them, for he knew that they were the best supporters of the throne of absolutism.

Having felt God, God became for him a necessity: more so even, an essential—an absolutism which banished all else from his mind.

When the royalist gentry went down before Cromwell's Ironsides, absolutism received its death-wound.

The history of English Absolutism distinctly bears out these anticipations.

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