Teleocracy

Quick meaning: Teleocracy is a noun meaning An organization or system of government existing for a specific purpose.

Meaning

An organization or system of government existing for a specific purpose.

Example Sentences

These policies of integration (which were often as comprehensive as circumstances and the available apparatus of management permitted) were adventures in teleocracy.

The problem with these arguments, powerfully made and clearly well intentioned though they very often are, is they simply do not establish what they need to establish: the necessity of teleocracy.

In the first, the trend towards teleocracy is seen to be historically inevitable on account of recent (mainly technological) developments; "it is alleged to be the destiny imposed upon Europe (indeed, upon the world) by the 'needs of the epoch'."

Word Forms

• teleocracies
• telocracy

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include technocracy, electocracy, timocracy, vetocracy, do-ocracy, tyranthood.

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