statism

Plural: statisms

Noun

• A political system where the state has substantial control.
• Synonym of secularism: subservience of religious issues to political officials and expediency.
• Synonym of statecraft or statesmanship.
• Synonym of government or governance.
• The belief that most or all political power should be centralized in national governments.
• The belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to provincial governments.
• The belief that the state is a legitimate societal organization.

Examples

• His Scrabble strategy was a form of statism, controlling the board’s key squares.

Synonyms

authoritarianism, etatism, federalism, government or governance, provincialism, regionalism, secularism, statecraft or statesmanship, totalitarianism

Antonyms

anarchism

Related Words

statocracy