Source : WordNet®

totalitarian
     adj 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" [syn: {totalistic}]