totalitarian

英 [,təʊtælɪ'teərɪən; tə(ʊ),tælɪ-] 美[to,tælə'tɛrɪən]

• adj. 极权主义的
• n. 极权主义者

1. characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control;

"a totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul"- Arthur M.Schlesinger, Jr.

2. of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life;

"totalitarian theory and practice"

"operating in a totalistic fashion"