Definition of Absolutistic

1. Adjective. Pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism.

Exact synonyms: Absolutist
Partainyms: Absolutism, Absolutism
Derivative terms: Absolutist, Absolutism, Absolutism

Definition of Absolutistic

1. a. Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.

Definition of Absolutistic

1. Adjective. Pertaining to absolutism; despotic. ¹

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Definition of Absolutistic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Absolutistic

absolutenesses
absoluter
absolutes
absolutest
absolution
absolutions
absolutisation
absolutisations
absolutise
absolutised
absolutises
absolutising
absolutism
absolutisms
absolutist
absolutistic (current term)
absolutistically
absolutists
absolutive
absolutive case
absolutive cases
absolutization
absolutizations
absolutize
absolutized
absolutizes
absolutizing
absolutory
absolvable
absolvatory

Literary usage of Absolutistic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cameralists: The Pioneers of German Social Polity by Albion Woodbury Small (1909)
"Americans have been taught so exclusively the dark phases of absolutistic régimes that they resent suggestion of factors in the case which they have not ..."

2. Human Traits and Their Social Significance by Irwin Edman (1920)
"The Kantian or absolutistic position, by its emphasis on the ... Kantian or absolutistic position with having hit upon a genuinely moral aspect of human ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... philosophical system which contains an all-inclusive whole is probably one of the chief motives leading to the selection of an absolutistic standpoint. ..."

4. The Problem of Knowledge by Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1915)
"... here is the fact (as we would contend it is) that even these "absolute truths" are reached, not by the absolutistic, but by a humanistic criterion. ..."

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