an adherent of totalitarian principles or totalitarian government
An advocate of totalitarianism.
characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control
"a totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul"
of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life
"totalitarian theory and practice"
"operating in a totalistic fashion"
Of or relating to a system of government where the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control of every aspect of the country, socially, financially and politically.
The word comes from the Italian totalitario, meaning complete or absolute, combined with the suffix -an. It is equivalent to the English combination of "totality" and "-arian".