Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or characterized by absolutism; characteristic of absolutists or absolutism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism
Etymologies
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Examples
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Amber (ethnocentric, mythic): The Amber Altitude began about 5,000 years ago, and indicates a worldview that is traditionalist and mythic in nature—and mythic worldviews are almost always held as absolute (this stage of development is often called absolutistic).
INTEGRAL POLITIC 2009
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Amber (ethnocentric, mythic): The Amber Altitude began about 5,000 years ago, and indicates a worldview that is traditionalist and mythic in nature—and mythic worldviews are almost always held as absolute (this stage of development is often called absolutistic).
Archive 2009-02-23 2009
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Their twisted absolutistic thinking is all about punishing perceived rule breakers, while they break the largest rules of all and hide it or lie about it.
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It is perhaps not surprising that absolutistic assumptions about life and its meaning were not part of Barack Obama's own upbringing.
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DB: Well, right now we are seeing what we call our third level system: egocentric, predatory, express self impulsively, “to hell with others”—moving into the fourth level system: that absolutistic, one right way, ideology, -ism.
iShift - Don Beck on the Essential Shifts (2006 Transcript) William Harryman 2009
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In your usual absolutistic view of things, you cannot understand that no system is perfect, or that it is simply a stage until it becomes corrupted and a society seeks something – usually drastic – to counter balance that corruption.
Think Progress » Pentagon official resigns over detainee remarks. 2007
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The sorry repercussions of embracing superhumanism-a new absolutistic faith - are everywhere to be seen.
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~ BLOG: Meta-Genius: A Celebration of Ken's Writings Part 3 -- A Celebration of Ken is dysfunctional green, or extreme and absolutistic pluralism.
Speedlinking 5/31/07 William Harryman 2007
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More to the point, we are far more likely to find devout creationists centered at absolutistic DQ-Blue and devout evolutionists centered at multiplistic ER-Orange.
Involution / Evolution Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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Actually, Roger, there are other, less barbaric and absolutistic options…
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