'fascism' definitions:
Definition of 'fascism'
(from WordNet)
noun
A political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)
Definition of 'fascism'
From: GCIDE
- fascism \fasc"ism\ (f[a^]sh"[i^]z'm) n.
- 1. a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government; -- opposed to democracy and liberalism. [WordNet 1.5]
- 2. an authoritarian system of government under absolute control of a single dictator, allowing no political opposition, forcibly suppressing dissent, and rigidly controlling most industrial and economic activities. Such regimes usually try to achieve popularity by a strongly nationalistic appeal, often mixed with racism. [PJC]
- 3. Specifically, the Fascist movement led by Benito Mussolini in Italy from 1922 to 1943. [PJC]
- 4. broadly, a tendency toward or support of a strongly authoritarian or dictatorial control of government or other organizations; -- often used pejoratively in this sense. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'fascism'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- anti-Semitism,
- apartheid,
- argumentum baculinum,
- big stick,
- black power,
- black supremacy,
- centralism,
- chauvinism,
- class consciousness,
- class distinction,
- class hatred,
- class prejudice,
- class war,
- collectivism,
- color bar,
- color line,
- communism,
- constitutionalism,
- democratism,
- despotism,
- discrimination,
- domination,
- domineering,
- federalism,
- feudalism,
- feudality,
- governmentalism,
- heavy hand,
- high hand,
- imperialism,
- iron boot,
- iron hand,
- iron heel,
- Jim Crow,
- Jim Crow law,
- know-nothingism,
- male chauvinist,
- minority prejudice,
- monarchism,
- national socialism,
- Nazism,
- neofascism,
- oppression,
- parliamentarianism,
- parliamentarism,
- pluralism,
- political principles,
- race hatred,
- race prejudice,
- race snobbery,
- racial discrimination,
- racialism,
- racism,
- red-baiting,
- reign of terror,
- republicanism,
- royalism,
- segregation,
- sex discrimination,
- sexism,
- social barrier,
- social discrimination,
- socialism,
- statism,
- superpatriotism,
- terrorism,
- thought control,
- tyranny,
- ultranationalism,
- white power,
- white supremacy,
- xenophobia