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Definition of Totalism
1. Noun. The principle of complete and unrestricted power in government.
Generic synonyms: Ideology, Political Orientation, Political Theory
Derivative terms: Absolutist, Absolutistic, Totalistic
Definition of Totalism
1. Noun. totalitarianism"[ totalism]", ''Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary''. (2008). Merriam-Webster Online. accessed 7 December 2008 ¹
2. Noun. doctrine of wholeness which may involve brainwashingLifton, Robert Jay. ''Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism''. (1989) UNC Press. ISBN 0807842532. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Totalism
1. centralized control by an autocratic authority [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Totalism
Literary usage of Totalism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1840)
"What he says is true—but * * * * TBA-totalism AND TOTAL ABSTINENCE. DEAR
CHRISTOPHER,—Having been lately invited to become vice-patron of a Total Abstinence ..."
2. Our First Century: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the One by Richard Miller Devens (1876)
"Influential Men Enlisted.—Meetings, Societies, Agitation.—A Congressional
Organization. —Origin of " Tee-totalism."—Deacon Giles's Distillery. ..."
3. Memoir of the Late James Hope by Hope (Anne Fulton), Klein Grant, Burder (Thomas Harrison) (1844)
"Letter to his Godson—Letter on tee-totalism. AN incident in the spring of 1840,
exhibited Dr. Hope's conscientiousness in the discharge of what are ..."
4. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1841)
"Tee-totalism, that's the nostrum For every ill that flesh inherits ; tee-to-tum !
My muse in triumph mounts the rostrum, A Balaam banning ARDENT SPIRITS. ..."
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