Definition for Tyranny:

• Rule of a tyrant; despotism; cruelty; oppression.

Synonyms for Tyranny:

• n.

  •
  • abuse,
  • barbarism,
  • bullying,
  • atrocity,
  • inhumanity,
  • maltreatment,
  • politics,
  • evil,
  • Brutalities,
  • over,
  • savagery.
  •
  • authority,
  • oligopoly,
  • force,
  • power,
  • greatness,
  • leadership,
  • monopoly,
  • control,
  • might.
  •absolute power (noun)
  • absolute-power.
  •absolutism (noun)
  • monocracy,
  • totalitarianism.
  •autarchy (noun)
  • tyrannical rule.
  •authoritarianism (noun)
  • authoritarianism.
  •autocracy (noun)
  • czarisms,
  • totalitarian governments.
  •command (noun)
  • primacy,
  • knowhow,
  • expertism.
  •dictatorship (noun)
  • high-handedness,
  • unreasonableness,
  • terrorism,
  • unlimited rule,
  • oligarchy,
  • Peremptoriness,
  • fascism,
  • imperiousness,
  • totality,
  • coercion,
  • reign of terror,
  • garrison state,
  • severity.
  •domination (noun)
  • sub ordination,
  • sub ordinations,
  • pre-potencies,
  • sub-ordinations,
  • pre potency,
  • prepotences,
  • pre potences,
  • pre potencies,
  • pre-potency,
  • pre potence,
  • pre-potence,
  • sub-ordination,
  • pre-potences.
  •shogunate (noun)
  • shogunate.
  •tyranny (noun)
  • one-man rule.

• Other synonyms:

  •Caesarism
  • caesarism.
  •
  • autarchy,
  • oppression.
  •
  • opposition.
  •Stalinism
  • stalinism.
  •brutality
  • cruelty.

Paraphrases for Tyranny:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    despotism.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    authoritarianism.

• Independent

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

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    tyrant, dictatorship, oppression, arbitrariness, repression, autocracy, high-handedness, injustice, terror.

Antonyms for Tyranny:

• n.

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

Tyranny Sentence Examples:

• Through tyranny and falsehood alone is Christianity able to hold woman in subjection.

• The Protestant Reformation was a revolt against the former, and it is noticeable how large a part was played by the New Testament doctrine of the 'Spirit' in this struggle of spiritual democracy against hierocratic tyranny.