NAZISM Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

Nazism

noun

Definition of Nazism

as in fascism

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Recent Examples of Nazism The Nazism moment in last week's hearing was far less straightforward than in 2022. — Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 2 July 2025 Research conducted for exhibits on Nolde in Frankfurt in 2014 and in Berlin in 2019 revealed the artist’s true relationship to Nazism to the wider public. — Ombline Damy, JSTOR Daily, 26 June 2025 Sanders recalled how the United States just celebrated the anniversary of D-Day on Friday, in which U.S. troops began the landing of Normandy to defeat fascism and Nazism. — Asher Notheis, The Washington Examiner, 8 June 2025 Amrum lives in the category of movies that confront the cruelty of Nazism through the perspective of children. — Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for Nazism

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Noun

This book keeps my feet on the ground and my heart connected to the greater pulse suffering under late-stage capitalism and fascism.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 June 2026
Through blood-curdling howls and rants about fascism, fraud, and fighting to understand your identity, Truck Violence push through ugliness to find something more unaltered and real.

— Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 25 June 2026

Definition of fascism

Noun

Visual artist and historian Ranfis Suárez Ramos highlighted the importance of internet access for Cubans as a way to break the hold of totalitarianism.

— Sarah Moreno June 5, Miami Herald, 6 June 2026
His parents’ experience living under totalitarianism shaped his outlook on the world.

— Iris Kwok May 12, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026

Definition of totalitarianism

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His story stretches beyond sports, touching one of Haiti’s many mysteries of Haiti’s brutal Duvalier dictatorship and reflecting on the outsize role Haitians have long played in shaping American history.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026
Virtually all contemporary dictatorships are cosplay democracies with term limits, elections, and legislatures—the few ruling, as Amos Perlmutter put it, in the name of the many.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026

Definition of dictatorship

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