Etymology
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From French despotisme; equivalent to despot + -ism.
Pronunciation
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despotism (countable and uncountable, plural despotisms)
- Government by a despot or despots: rule by a singular authority, either a single person or a tight-knit group, which rules with absolute power, especially in a cruel and oppressive way.
1992 March 30, Richard Nixon, 4:50 from the start, in Richard Nixon on "Inside Washington"[1], Richard Nixon Foundation, retrieved 25 May 2020:But now events have proved that I was right because Khrushchev's grandchildren do live in freedom and the great question of our time: can they continue to live in freedom, or will they revert to the old, or a new despotism?
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government by a singular authority
- Albanian: despotizëm (sq) m
- Arabic: اِسْتِبْدَاد (ar) m (istibdād), ظُلْم (ar) m (ẓulm)
- Armenian: բռնապետություն (hy) (bṙnapetutʻyun), բռնակալություն (hy) (bṙnakalutʻyun)
- Asturian: despotismu m
- Azerbaijani: despotizm, zülm (az), istibdad (az)
- Basque: despotismo
- Belarusian: дэспаты́зм m (despatýzm)
- Bulgarian: деспоти́зъм (bg) m (despotízǎm)
- Catalan: despotisme m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: please add this translation if you can
- Mandarin: 專制／专制 (zh) (zhuānzhì), 專制主義／专制主义 (zh) (zhuānzhìzhǔyì), 獨裁／独裁 (zh) (dúcái), 暴政 (zh) (bàozhèng)
- Czech: despotismus m, despocie (cs) f
- Danish: despoti (da) n
- Dutch: despotisme (nl) n
- Esperanto: despotismo (eo)
- Estonian: despotism (et)
- Finnish: itsevaltius (fi)
- French: despotisme (fr)
- Galician: despotismo (gl) m
- Georgian: დესპოტიზმი (desṗoṭizmi)
- German: Despotie (de) f, Despotismus (de) m, Willkürherrschaft (de) f
- Greek: δεσποτισμός (el) m (despotismós)
- Hebrew: רוֹדָנוּת (he) f (rodanút)
- Hindi: तानाशाही (hi) f (tānāśāhī), स्वेच्छाचारिता (hi) (svecchācāritā)
- Hungarian: despotizmus (hu)
- Icelandic: harðstjórn f
- Ido: despoteso (io)
- Indonesian: despotisme (id), istibdad (id)
- Irish: forlámhas m, smachtúlacht f, tíorántacht f
- Italian: dispotismo (it) m
- Japanese: 専制 (ja) (せんせい, sensei), 独裁主義 (どくさいしゅぎ, dokusaishugi), 独裁 (ja) (どくさい, dokusai), 暴政 (ja) (ぼうせい, bōsei)
- Kazakh: деспотизм (despotizm)
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 전제(專制) (ko) (jeonje), 독재(獨裁) (ko) (dokjae), 폭정(暴政) (ko) (pokjeong)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: istibdad (ku)
- Latin: despotismus m
- Latvian: despotisms m
- Lithuanian: despotizmas m
- Macedonian: деспоти́зам m (despotízam)
- Malay: despotisme
- Mingrelian: დესპოტიზმი (desṗoṭizmi)
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: despoti n
- Nynorsk: despoti n
- Persian: استبداد (fa) (estebdâd), ظلم (fa) (zolm)
- Polish: despotyzm (pl) m
- Portuguese: despotismo (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਧੱਕੇਸ਼ਾਹੀ (dhakkeśāhī)
- Romanian: despotism (ro) n
- Russian: деспоти́зм (ru) m (despotízm), произво́л (ru) m (proizvól), деспоти́я (ru) f (despotíja)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: деспотѝзам m
- Roman: despotìzam (sh) m
- Slovak: despotizmus m
- Slovene: despotizem m
- Spanish: despotismo (es) m
- Swedish: despoti c, despotism (sv) c
- Tajik: истибдод (istibdod), зулм (zulm)
- Thai: ระบบใช้อำนาจเด็ดขาด (rá-bòp chái am-nâat dèt kàat)
- Turkish: despotizm (tr), istibdat (tr)
- Ukrainian: деспоти́зм m (despotýzm)
- Urdu: اِسْتِبْدَاد (istibdād)
- Uzbek: despotiya (uz), istibdod (uz), zulm (uz)
- Volapük: däspot (vo)
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