Meaning

6 senses
  1. (derogatory, often, uncountable)The belief that most or all political power should be centralized in national governments.

    Near-synonyms: big government, dirigisme

  2. (derogatory, often, uncountable)The belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to provincial governments.

  3. (derogatory, often, uncountable)The belief that the state is a legitimate social institution.

    Etatismus

    этати́змetatízm, госуда́рственничествоgosudárstvenničestvo

  4. (derogatory, obsolete, uncountable)Synonym of secularism: subservience of religious issues to political officials and expediency.

  5. (obsolete, uncountable)Synonym of statecraft or statesmanship.

  6. (archaic, uncountable)Synonym of government or governance.

Translations

8 languages
Русский
belief in the supreme legitimacy of the state:
Deutsch
belief in the supreme legitimacy of the state:

Origin

From stat(e) + -ism. Doublet of etatism. First attested in c. 1600.

From stat(e) + -ism. Doublet of etatism. First attested in c. 1600.

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