Definitions for authoritarianism
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1. 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.)

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1. authoritarianismnoun

   A form of government in which the governing body has absolute, or almost absolute, control. Typically this control is maintained by force, and little heed is paid to public opinion or the judicial system.

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1. authoritarianism

   Authoritarianism is a system of government or ideology in which power is centralized in a single authority, usually a dictator or political elite, and characterized by limited individual freedoms, strong government control over political and social life, and a lack of personal rights and liberties. It often involves the suppression of political opposition, strict obedience to authority, systemic control of public opinion, and resistance to changes in leadership or political structure.

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1. Authoritarianism

   Authoritarianism is a form of government. Juan Linz, whose 1964 description of authoritarianism is influential, characterized authoritarianism regimes are political systems characterized by four qualities: "limited, not responsible, political pluralism"; that is, constraints on political institutions and groups, a basis for legitimacy based on emotion, especially the identification of the regime as a necessary evil to combat "easily recognizable societal problems" such as underdevelopment or insurgency; neither "intensive nor extensive political mobilization" and constraints on the mass public and "formally ill-defined" executive power, often shifting or vague.

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1. Authoritarianism

   The personality pattern or syndrome consisting of behavioral and attitudinal characteristics reflecting a preoccupation with the factors of power and authority in interpersonal relationships.

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1. • Autocracy

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of authoritarianism in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of authoritarianism in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of authoritarianism in a Sentence

1. Jon Ossoff:

   The President of the United States and his allies in Congress are leading this country down a dark path, we can no longer go down a path of authoritarianism, of racism, of corruption. We are better than this, and Georgia is better than this.

2. Da Silva:

   The country is going through one of the most serious moments in our history, requiring us to build an alternative path despite any differences in order to overcome the incompetence and authoritarianism that govern us.

3. Justin Trudeau:

   Growing our economy, creating good jobs for people in a changing world, how we’re going to be holding off the rise of authoritarianism, defending our democracies, how we’re going to be continuing to step up on the fight against climate change …there’s so much that we can do together and so much greater impact that we have around the world when we do it together.

4. White House:

   Even so, Russia’s war in Ukraine offers Biden an opportunity, in Brinkley’s view, to convince Americans of the importance of a united transatlantic alliance and to emphasize that he brought allies together to stand against Putin’s assault, it’s a key moment to take the stage as the global leader who is going to halt authoritarianism by building up our armed forces. He somehow has to make people really feel like ‘the USA is back,’ that democracy is eternal.

5. Daniel Squadron:

   The idea that Trump, Trumpism and anti-democratic authoritarianism are separate, or emanate from the Oval Office is the crisis, they're the same thing. And they've been alive and well in state legislatures, going back, certainly going back 40 years.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=authoritarianism
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Authoritarianism
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=authoritarianism