What is the meaning of the word "totalitarian"?

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  1. characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control copy to clipboard adjective
    • a totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul Arthur M.Schlesinger, Jr. copy to clipboard
  2. of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life copy to clipboard adjective
    • totalitarian theory and practice copy to clipboard

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