Definition for Despotism:

• Absolute power or government.

Synonyms for Despotism:

• n.

  •
  • atrocity,
  • bullying,
  • Brutalities,
  • abuse,
  • barbarism,
  • evil,
  • maltreatment.
  •
  • over,
  • politics.
  •absolute power (noun)
  • authoritarianism,
  • tyranny.
  •absolutism (noun)
  • totalism,
  • totalitarianism,
  • monocracy.
  •autarchy (noun)
  • tyrannical rule.
  •autocracy (noun)
  • government,
  • imperialism.
  •command (noun)
  • expertism,
  • knowhow,
  • primacy.
  •cruelty (noun)
  • hard-heartednesses,
  • un-feelingnesses,
  • in sensitiveness,
  • fiendishnesses,
  • in-sensitiveness,
  • un-kindness,
  • hardheartednesses,
  • murderousnesses,
  • in-sensibility,
  • insensitivenesses,
  • un-kindnesses,
  • in-humanities,
  • un feelingness,
  • unfeelingnesses,
  • un-feelingness,
  • un feelingnesses,
  • bloodthirstinesses,
  • in sensitivenesses,
  • in humanities,
  • in sensibilities,
  • un kindness,
  • callousnesses,
  • ruthlessnesses,
  • in humanity,
  • in-sensibilities,
  • in-humanity,
  • savagenesses,
  • brutishnesses,
  • in-sensitivenesses,
  • Masochisms,
  • un kindnesses,
  • hard heartedness,
  • hard heartednesses,
  • in sensibility,
  • unkindnesses,
  • mercilessnesses,
  • heartlessnesses.
  •despotism (noun)
  • one-man rule,
  • shogunate.
  •dictatorship (noun)
  • unlimited rule,
  • garrison state.
  •domination (noun)
  • prepotences,
  • pre potency,
  • pre potence,
  • pre-potency,
  • sub ordinations,
  • pre-potences,
  • sub-ordinations,
  • pre-potencies,
  • pre potencies,
  • pre-potence,
  • sub ordination,
  • sub-ordination,
  • pre potences.
  •fascism (noun)
  • oneparty systems,
  • oneparty system,
  • one-party systems,
  • party governments,
  • one party system,
  • one party systems.
  •police state (noun)
  • police-state,
  • rule terror,
  • totalitarian regimes,
  • brute forces.
  •truculence (noun)
  • truculence.
  •tyranny (noun)
  • imperiousness,
  • terrorism,
  • repression,
  • high-handedness,
  • coercion,
  • Oligarchies,
  • Peremptoriness,
  • highhandedness,
  • oligarchy.

• Other synonyms:

  •Caesarism
  • caesarism.
  •
  • autarchy.
  •Stalinism
  • stalinism.

Paraphrases for Despotism:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    authoritarianism, tyranny.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    totalitarianism, totalitarian, mercy.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    arbitrariness, high-handedness, dictatorship, autocracy, despotic, arbitrary.

Antonyms for Despotism:

• n.

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

Despotism Sentence Examples:

• In the interests of Philip and his despotism, nothing, at any rate, could be more fatal than delay.

• " It is extraordinary," said Mr. Doolittle, " that a bill of this kind, that proposes to establish a military despotism over eight million people and a country larger than England, France, and Spain combined, is to be pressed to a vote in this Senate the first day it is taken up for consideration."

Homophones for Despotism:

• disease of the skin.