English Dictionary

totalism

名詞

稀用 不可算名詞 通常 可算名詞

(rare, usually uncountable) A social, economic and/or political system in which some authority (e.g. the state or "the market") wields absolute power; totalitarianism.

日本語の意味

全体主義：政治、経済、社会などにおいて、国家や市場といった何らかの権威が絶対的な権力を行使する体制

Many intellectuals warned that totalism would erode civil liberties and crush dissent.

多くの知識人は、全体主義が市民の自由を侵食し、反対意見を抑圧すると警告した。

意味（1）

(rare, usually uncountable) A social, economic and/or political system in which some authority (e.g. the state or "the market") wields absolute power; totalitarianism.

If the political totalism of the fascist and communist world once tried, at horrendous human costs, to subordinate all economic, social, and cultural activity to the demands of an overarching state, the economic totalism of unleashed market economics seems now to be trying (at costs yet to be fully reckoned) to subordinate politics, society, and culture to the demands of an overarching market.

意味（2）

(rare, countable) A philosophy, ideology or belief system that is total in its scope, one that covers everything.

To postmodernists, modernism gave the world science, reason, western civilization, Marxism, Freudianism, and other totalisms. Each of these totalisms tells a grand story that relates everything to everything else by using the system's universal principle as a theme.

意味（3）

(rare, uncountable) Totality; (the) entirety (of something).

Once the totalism of Sagehood is grasped, the disciple can throw away his li-books; he will be a perfect ritual actor naturally.

意味（4）

(rare, uncountable) Totalness, absoluteness; the characteristic of being absolute in nature or scope.

The ideological fervor, the abhorrence of compromise, the attraction to conflict, and the totalism of his family's rejection of white culture were the biographical themes that served him best as he tried to reach the hearts of his followers.

totalisms （ plural ）