Definitions for Fascism

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Fascism fas·cism

Spelling: [fash-iz-uh m]

IPA: /ˈfæʃ ɪz əm/

Fascism is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 161 anagrams from letters in Fascism (acfimss).

Definitions for Fascism

noun

1. (sometimes initial capital letter) a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
2. (sometimes initial capital letter) the philosophy, principles, or methods of fascism.
3. (initial capital letter) a political movement that employs the principles and methods of fascism, especially the one established by Mussolini in Italy 1922–43.

Origin of Fascism

1915-20; Italian fascismo, equivalent to fasc(io) bundle, political group (see fasces) + -ismo -ism

Examples for Fascism

But President Ubico is not hopelessly addicted to one brand of fascism.

At first glance, the feudal nature of fascism seems unimportant.

This is an open principle of fascism, as it is of all dictatorships and "total" states.

Putin says the events in Kiev signal the return of fascism to Europe, even as he foments anti-Semitic sentiment at home.

And then he sort of collapsed it into a rise of fascism, and SS pastiche groups.

It does not surprise us that the logic of fascism ends in death.

The mirror-image systems of communism and fascism promised to solve problems quickly through command and control.

Therefore, Western supporters of the protests, like John Mccain, are agitating on behalf of violent Ukrainian fascism.

He was seeing the face of fascism for the first time, he wrote, and seeing it at close range.

Which was the right thing to be, after all, because communism is as illiberal as fascism.