tyranny

tyranny
n
1. despotism, dictatorship, supremacy, sovereignty, absolute power, unlimited authority, complete control, domination; iron hand or fist, iron rod, iron rule; oppression, repression, suppression.
2. absolutism, totalitarianism, autocracy, monocracy, one-man rule, one-party rule; czarism, Caesarism, kaiserism, Stalinism, imperialism; U.S. (of politics) bossism.
3. severity, severeness, harshness, strictness, hardness, rigorousness, toughness; cruelty, brutality, inhumanity, inhumanness; ruthlessness, mercilessness, pitilessness, relentlessness, inexorability, inexorableness, implacability, implacableness.

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