Statism

Quick meaning: Statism is a noun meaning The belief that most or all political power should be centralized in national governments.

Meaning

The belief that most or all political power should be centralized in national governments.

More Meanings

1. The belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to provincial governments.
2. The belief that the state is a legitimate social institution.
3. (obsolete, derogatory) Synonym of secularism: subservience of religious issues to political officials and expediency.
4. (obsolete) Synonym of statecraft or statesmanship.
5. (archaic) Synonym of government or governance.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: big government, dirigisme

Religion turned into Statisme, will soone prooue Atheisme.

My great Cousin hauing euermore From my greene yeares accepted my aduise In points of statisme.

[The Ten Commandments] have formed the basis of every system of statism adopted by the civilized communities of the earth.

Synonyms for statism

Depending on context, synonyms include secularism, etatism, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, dirigisme, regionalism.

Antonyms for statism

Common opposites include anarchism.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stateism, regionalism, hypercentralization, statocracy, centralism, unitarism.

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