In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
TOTALISM
absolutism, totalitarianism, totalism
(noun) the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
totalism (countable and uncountable, plural totalisms)
(rare, usually, uncountable) A social, economic and/or political system in which some authority (e.g. the state or "the market") wields absolute power; totalitarianism.
(rare, countable) A philosophy, ideology or belief system that is total in its scope, one that covers everything.
(rare, uncountable) Totality; (the) entirety (of something).
(rare, uncountable) Totalness, absoluteness; the characteristic of being absolute in nature or scope.
Anagrams
• tailmost
Source: Wiktionary
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INITIALISM
(noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately; “HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language”
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