totalism
IPA: tˈoʊtʌɫɪzʌm
noun
- (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.
- (rare, countable) A philosophy, ideology or belief system that is total in its scope, one that covers everything.
- (rare, uncountable) Totality; (the) entirety (of something).
- (rare, uncountable) Totalness, absoluteness; the characteristic of being absolute in nature or scope.
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Examples of "totalism" in Sentences
- (previously known as "totalism"), class is still the central concern.
- If there is a "cybernetic totalism" in Facebook, it lies in our own desire to make our own lives closed, self-regulating systems.
- By seamlessly integrating face-to-face communication and electronic communication, society can avoid falling into the trap of “cybernetic totalism” foreseen by Jaron Lanier in his recent book You Are Not a Gadget.
- Some critics of current movements in science and technology such as Jaron Lanier denounce the legacy of cybernetics as something that gave rise to "cybernetic totalism" -- a system of beliefs that views all of the processes of life as interactions of information.
- Having written a book about the Prophet, my immersion into Islam showed me, with regret, that their is a fine line between what the religious conservatives want, which is religious totalism, and what the Taliban delivered in Afghanistan, which is religious totalitarianism.
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