Synonyms for Authoritarianism:

• n.

  •
  • behaviourism,
  • politics,
  • over,
  • autocracy,
  • cynicism.
  •absolutism (noun)
  • totalism,
  • monocracy,
  • totalitarianism.
  •authoritarianism (noun)
  • shogunate,
  • one-man rule,
  • tyranny.
  •dictatorship (noun)
  • unlimited rule,
  • garrison state.
  •fascism (noun)
  • one party systems,
  • party governments,
  • oneparty system,
  • one party system,
  • one-party systems,
  • oneparty systems.
  •group (noun)
  • authoritarianism.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • one-party system,
  • absolutism,
  • dictatorship,
  • fascism,
  • despotism,
  • racism,
  • party government.
  •severity (noun)
  • briskness,
  • rigorousness,
  • dryness,
  • brusqueness,
  • crispness,
  • intensity,
  • correctness,
  • gruffness,
  • bluntness,
  • causticity,
  • leanness,
  • starkness,
  • stringency,
  • discipline,
  • severity,
  • keenness,
  • preciseness,
  • coolness,
  • chilliness,
  • acuteness,
  • frostiness,
  • astringency,
  • oppressiveness,
  • austerity,
  • abruptness,
  • meticulousness,
  • sternness,
  • sharpness,
  • grimness,
  • acerbity,
  • strictness,
  • bleakness,
  • harshness,
  • matter-of-factness.
  •tyranny (noun)
  • Peremptoriness,
  • highhandedness,
  • oligarchy,
  • terrorism,
  • imperiousness,
  • Oligarchies,
  • high-handedness.

• Other synonyms:

  •Caesarism
  • caesarism.
  •
  • elitism,
  • fatalism,
  • atheism,
  • solipsism,
  • Parkinson's Law,
  • conspiracy theory,
  • sod's law,
  • structuralism,
  • materialism,
  • behaviorism,
  • positivism,
  • trickle-down theory,
  • revisionism,
  • Speciesism,
  • Kaizen,
  • determinism,
  • empiricism,
  • dualism,
  • functionalism,
  • relativism.
  •
  • nihilism,
  • individualism,
  • revivalism.
  •Stalinism
  • stalinism.
  •Other relevant words:
  • demeanor,
  • thorniness,
  • clearcutness,
  • logical positivism,
  • reign,
  • meagerness,
  • study,
  • laissez faire,
  • volume,
  • naziism,
  • niggardliness,
  • o'er,
  • crushing,
  • saturation,
  • parsimony,
  • field of study,
  • asperity,
  • exiguity,
  • alacrity,
  • shortsightedness,
  • spareness,
  • correct,
  • train,
  • staying power,
  • scratchiness,
  • complete,
  • waterlessness,
  • astringence,
  • imperturbableness,
  • detachment,
  • empiricist philosophy,
  • doings,
  • inhuman treatment,
  • mastery,
  • beastliness,
  • positivity,
  • arrogance,
  • sensationalism,
  • crispiness,
  • structural linguistics,
  • onerousness,
  • precipitancy,
  • sort out,
  • overbearingness,
  • smartness,
  • hardness,
  • precipitance,
  • precipitateness,
  • quelling,
  • cruelness,
  • hoariness,
  • terminated,
  • gruesomeness,
  • frigidity,
  • stifling,
  • hardship,
  • roughness,
  • conquest,
  • loudness,
  • capriciousness,
  • jaundice,
  • domineeringness,
  • chroma,
  • modality,
  • dogmatism,
  • optic disk,
  • insulation,
  • way,
  • insularism,
  • individuation,
  • inclemency,
  • ruthlessness,
  • severeness,
  • subjection,
  • nervelessness,
  • dullness,
  • ended,
  • slightness,
  • eagerness,
  • government,
  • whimsy,
  • condition,
  • flightiness,
  • rigourousness,
  • scantiness,
  • behavioristic psychology,
  • puniness,
  • captivity,
  • poorness,
  • tightfistedness,
  • punctiliousness,
  • avidness,
  • manner,
  • haughtiness,
  • physicalism,
  • rigor,
  • nip,
  • meticulosity,
  • myopia,
  • demeanour,
  • abrasiveness,
  • tartness,
  • strength,
  • conduct,
  • rightness,
  • ghastliness,
  • meagreness,
  • gravitas,
  • pitilessness,
  • whimsey,
  • heaviness,
  • bitterness,
  • racial discrimination,
  • formidability,
  • subject field,
  • desolation,
  • inhibition,
  • nonindulgence,
  • stiffness,
  • all over,
  • subject area,
  • style,
  • dispassionateness,
  • pungency,
  • acuity,
  • optic disc,
  • precipitousness,
  • structural sociology,
  • correction,
  • dispassion,
  • closeness,
  • suddenness,
  • asceticism,
  • positiveness,
  • thinness,
  • political sympathies,
  • concluded,
  • ruggedness,
  • stamina,
  • scrupulousness,
  • stypsis,
  • racialism,
  • bailiwick,
  • nihilistic delusion,
  • whimsicality,
  • scantness,
  • burdensomeness,
  • austereness,
  • terrorist act,
  • edge,
  • shortness,
  • hoarseness,
  • subject,
  • minginess,
  • mercilessness,
  • autarky,
  • intensiveness,
  • check,
  • conquering,
  • fashion,
  • acrimony,
  • precision,
  • xerotes,
  • stodginess,
  • dignity,
  • bite,
  • triviality,
  • field,
  • localism,
  • tightness,
  • mood,
  • bareness,
  • structural anthropology,
  • sectionalism,
  • philistinism,
  • rigour,
  • act of terrorism,
  • raciness,
  • brittleness,
  • deportment,
  • modal value,
  • murphy's law,
  • parsimoniousness,
  • supremacy,
  • absoluteness,
  • individuality,
  • distinctness,
  • nakedness,
  • vividness,
  • badness,
  • curtailment,
  • steepness,
  • behaviour,
  • curtness,
  • zealotry,
  • intensity level,
  • temper,
  • national socialism,
  • imperturbability,
  • sobriety,
  • political relation,
  • huskiness,
  • avidity,
  • coldness,
  • quackery,
  • iciness,
  • political science,
  • musical mode,
  • luridness.

Paraphrases for Authoritarianism:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    despotism, totalitarianism.

• Forward Entailment

  • Adjective
    authoritarian.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    autocracy, tyranny.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    authority, despotic, totalitarian, dictates.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    dictatorship, high-handedness.

Antonyms for Authoritarianism:

• n.

  • absolutism
    democracy.
  • Other antonyms:
    freedom, self-governance, self-rule, autonomy, self-government, sovereignty.

Hypernym for Authoritarianism:

• n.

  • group
    police state.

Hyponym for Authoritarianism:

• n.

  • group
    autarchy, autocracy.