statism

About 0.23 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Synonym of secularism: subservience of religious issues to political officials and expediency.
2. noun Synonym of statecraft or statesmanship.
3. noun Synonym of government or governance.
4. noun The belief that most or all political power should be centralized in national governments.
5. noun The belief that most or all political power should be centralized in national governments.
6. noun The belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to provincial governments.
7. noun The belief that the state is a legitimate social institution. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}

Similar words

stateism regionalism hypercentralization statocracy centralism unitarism etatism provincialism omphalism politicism

Often followed by

and in of is to was that as or

Word family

statisms