A racial dictatorship or doctrine in which one political party or group maintains complete control, down to the level of the intimate details of an individual's life.

A government that wishes to subordinate the individual to the state by controlling not only all political and economic matters, but also by seeking to control the attitudes, values, and beliefs of its population.

1926, first in reference to Italian fascism, formed in English on model of Italian totalitario "complete, absolute, totalitarian," from total (adj.) + ending from authoritarian. The noun is [..]

adjective. designating or characteristic of a government or state in which one political party or group maintains complete control and refuses to recognise and as a consequence suppresses all other political parties and all collateral opposition, such as media, freedom of speech, education, public institutions, literature and so on.

having to do with an oppressive, centralized leadership that does not allow for differing opinions.

Totalitario

(n) an adherent of totalitarian principles or totalitarian government(adj) characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control(adj) of or relat [..]

authoritarian

A government upheld by authoritarian means.

A form of authoritarian government in which the political and military leaders attempt to intervene in and control both the public and private lives of citizens, typically through coercion and violence. The Soviet Union under Stalin and Nazi Germany under Hitler are the prime examples of totalitarian government in the twentieth century.