# totalitarianism

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #36,377

## Definitions
1. A system of government in which the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control, for example, a dictatorship.

## Etymology
1938, from totalitarian + -ism, modeled after Italian totalitarismo (1923, by Giovanni Amendola) and German terms such as Totalstaat (1927, The Concept of the Political, by Carl Schmitt).

## Common misspellings (22)
`ottalitarianism`, `toatlitarianism`, `totailtarianism`, `totaliatrianism`, `totalitairanism`, `totalitarainism`, `totalitariainsm`, `totalitarianims`, `totalitarianismm`, `totalitarianissm`, `totalitariannism`, `totalitariansim`, `totalitarinaism`, `totalitarrianism`, `totalitraianism`, `totalittarianism`, `totallitarianism`, `totaltiarianism`, `totlaitarianism`, `tottalitarianism`, `ttoalitarianism`, `ttotalitarianism`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/totalitarianism