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Definition of Totalistic
1. Adjective. Of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life. "Operating in a totalistic fashion"
Definition of Totalistic
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to totalism. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Totalistic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Totalistic
Literary usage of Totalistic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On Being Human Religiously: Selected Essays in Religion and Society by James Luther Adams (1976)
"This outlook is today referred to as "the totalistic impulse" of the Calvinists,
and a recognition of it has given rise to a new phase ..."
2. Test Case: Italy, Ethiopia, and the League of Nations by George W. Baer (1976)
"States are rarely totalistic, comprehensive. Decisions, to quote Haas, ...
21 Thus, since the League had not satisfied the "totalistic" demands of Japan and ..."
3. The Dance of Śiva: Fourteen Indian Essays by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (1918)
"... belongs to totalistic monism; it marches with the Vedanta. In a country like
India, where thought is typically consistent with itself, this is no more ..."
4. The Moral Law: Or, The Theory and Practice of Duty; an Ethical Text-book by Edward John Hamilton (1902)
"Essentially duty is neither egoistic nor altruistic but what might be called
absolutistic or totalistic.—2. Yet the rules whereby moral principle is applied ..."
5. Local Economic Development: A Geographical Comparison of Rural Community by Cecily Neil, Markku Tykkyläinen (1998)
"Thus, as early as the 1930s, at the very beginning of the development of the
Swedish welfare state, one author noted: The totalistic "urbs" in which we live ..."
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