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Definisjon av despotism

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WordNet WordNet by Princeton University

Noun
despotism - a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
dictatorship, absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny
autarchy, autocracy a political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual
despotism - dominance through threat of punishment and violence
absolutism, tyranny
ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, dominance, control the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not
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Substantiv
despotism - Government by a singular authority, either a single person or tight-knit group, which rules with absolute power.

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  • Despotism is a form of government in which a single entity, called the 'despot', rules with absolute power. That entity may be an individual, as in an autocracy, or it may be a group, as in an oligarchy. The word "despotism" means to "rule in the fashion of a despot" and should not be confused with 'despot'.

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  • despotism
    The rule of a despot.

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