Words and phrases that have a meaning related to despotism: (122 results)
Often used in the same context:
tyranny, autocracy, totalitarianism, authoritarianism, oppression, tyrants, caesarism, dictatorship, absolutism, fascism, imperialism, despots, feudalism, colonialism, democracy, anarchy, statism, bonapartism, obscurantism, monarchism, subjugation, barbarism, medievalism, dictators, illiberalism, repression, imperium, autocrats, misrule, aristocracies, theocracy, civilization, rapine, rulers, kleptocracy, vassalage, manichaeism, serfdom, arabism, neocolonialism, wickedness, hegemony, overlordship, stalinism, imamate, servility, monocracy, islamism, socialism, oligarchy, oppressor, welfarism, monarchies, liberalism, capitalism, unreason, irredentism, castroism, dehumanisation, fundamentalism, subjection, adventurism, democratic, expansionism, knavery, immorality, arbitrariness, industrialism, constitutionalism, republic, militarism, imperial, tribalism, tyrannic, atavism, enfeeblement, backwardness, communism, repressiveness, counterrevolution, mobocracy, autarchy, royalism, murderousness, neoliberalism, degeneracy, corporatism, sectionalism, bolshevism, ancien regime, decadence, regimes, radicalism, oligarchical, irrationalism, malignity, landlordism, sovietism, patriarchy, pluralism, servitude, imperialists, despot, despotisms, autocrat, monarchy, overlord, tyrannies, slavery, domination, supremacy, tutelage
More specific:
police state
Appears in the definition of:
unlimited
More general:
ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance
Synonyms:
Also try:one-man rule, shogunate
— Adjectives for despotism: military, oriental, enlightened, benevolent, absolute, political, spiritual, pure, royal, russian, imperial, more...
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