Fascism

Noun

 * 1) A political regime, having totalitarian aspirations, ideologically based on a relationship between business and the centralized government, business-and-government control of the market place, repression of criticism or opposition, a leader cult and exalting the state and/or religion above individual rights. Originally only applied (usually capitalized) to Benito Mussolini's Italy.
 * 2) By vague analogy, any system of strong autocracy or oligarchy usually to the extent of bending and breaking the law, race-baiting and violence against largely unarmed populations.

Derived terms

 * fascist, fascistic, fascistically
 * fascistoid
 * anti-fascism
 * Islamofascism, Islamic fascism
 * neofascism
 * technofascism

Antonyms

 * Anti-fascism

Adjectives for Fascism
distinct;  aggressive;   insidious;   power-drunk; efficient; masterful; stultifying.

Verbs for Fascism
admit to—; establish—; infect with—; inspire—; join—; oppose—; smack of—; suc¬cumb to—; support—; yield to—; —advocates; —aims at; —attacks; —campaigns; —controls; —crushes; —deprives; —embodies ; —enforces ; —girds its loins; —organizes; —ousts; —prohibits; —regulates; —revolts; —riots; —violates; —welds.

Thesaurus
Jim Crow, Jim Crow law, Nazism, 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, know-nothingism, male chauvinist, minority prejudice, monarchism, national socialism, 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

Etymology
From fascismo:, from fascio:, from  fasces:, plural of fascis:

Pronunciation

 * ,, {{SAMPA|/"f{SIz(@)m/}}

Translations

 * Afrikaans: fascisme
 * Albanian: fashizmi
 * Arabic: فاشية, نازية
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: фашызм, нацызм
 * Bulgarian: фашизъм, нацизъм
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  納粹主義,  纳粹主义
 * Croatian:
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 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi: फ़ासीवाद


 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: fasisme
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ファシズム, ナチズム
 * Korean: 파시즘
 * Norwegian: fasisme,
 * Persian: فاشیسم
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: fascism
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: fašizem
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: ฟาสซิสต์
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu: فاسیواد
 * Vietnamese:


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 * : faŝismo


 * : faşism, bindirmecilik, tepeden inmecilik, tepedencilik