Autocracy vs Absolutism - What's the difference?
autocracy | absolutism |
A form of government in which unlimited power is held by a single individual.
(theology) Doctrine of preordination; doctrine of absolute decrees; doctrine that God acts in an absolute manner.
(political science) The principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism.
:* The element of absolutism and prelacy was controlling. - Palfrey
(philosophy) Belief in a metaphysical absolute; belief in Absolute.
Positiveness; the state of being absolute.
(lb) The characteristic of being absolute in nature or scope; absoluteness.
* 2003 , Ruth R. Wisse, The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Language (ISBN 0226903184):
As nouns the difference between autocracy and absolutism
is that autocracy is a form of government in which unlimited power is held by a single individual while absolutism is doctrine of preordination; doctrine of absolute decrees; doctrine that God acts in an absolute manner.autocracy
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(wikipedia autocracy)Noun
(autocracies)Synonyms
* bigmanism * despotism * dictatorship * monarchy * tyrannyHypernyms
* totalitarianismabsolutism
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Noun
(en noun)- It was the absolutism of his ambition to be a perfect writer (and perhaps also the perfect son) that imperiled him.
