# statism
## English
### Etymology

From state +‎ -ism. Doublet of etatism. First attested in c. 1600.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈsteɪdɪzm/, /ˈsteɪdɪzəm/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsteɪtɪzm/, /ˈsteɪtɪzəm/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

statism (uncountable)
* (obsolete, derogatory) Synonym of secularism: subservience of religious issues to political officials and expediency.
** 1609, William Barlow, An Answer to a Catholike English-man, page 370:Religion turned into Statisme, will soone prooue Atheisme.
* (obsolete) Synonym of statecraft or statesmanship.
** 1608, J. F. Le Petit, translated by Edward Grimeston, General History of the Netherlands, page 1113:My great Cousin hauing euermore From my greene yeares accepted my aduise In points of statisme...
* (archaic) Synonym of government or governance.
** 1839, John Hobart Caunter, Poetry of the Pentateuch, page 189:[The Ten Commandments] have formed the basis of every system of statism adopted by the civilized communities of the earth.
* (political philosophy, often derogatory)
** The belief that most or all political power should be centralized in national governments.
    Synonym: etatism
    Hypernym: paternalism
    Coordinate term: statolatry
    Near-synonyms: big government, dirigisme
*** 1890, W.D.P. Bliss, What is Christian Socialism?, page 21:Bismarck... believes in State insurance in State activities, in place of individual action. But this is not Socialism. It is Statism.
*** 1940 November 5, The Sun, Baltimore, p. 5:
    Republican Senator Charles L. McNary concluded his Vice-Presidential campaign tonight with the charge the New Deal is ‘taking deeper and deeper refuge in paternalism and statism’.
*** 1971 January 10, Stan Lehr, Louis Rossetto, “The New Right Credo–Libertarianism”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:As the economic derivative of libertarianism, laissez-faire capitalism is an economics of life, of rationality. […] And, like libertarianism, it is the only viable solution to the catastrophe of statism in the modern age.
*** 1996, Louis Rossetto, “19th Century Nostrums are not Solutions to 21st Century Problems”, in Mute, volume 1, number 4, →ISSN:[…] ; social welfare policies reward parasitical living rather than risk-taking; a truly atavistic, sick attachment to the compulsion and non-meritocratic elitism of statism as a way of life; […] have all retarded and will continue to retard Europeans.
** The belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to provincial governments.
    Synonyms: regionalism, federalism, provincialism
*** 1854 July 1, The Times, London, p. 9:
    The joint note of Austria and Prussia... appears thus to have worked more good than moderation and good sense generally achieve over faction and petty-Statism.
*** 1875, A.H. Bullock, Intellectual Leadership Illustrated in American History, page 37:To him... we owe that sentiment of nationalism prevailing over statism... without which the Union would have parted.
** (chiefly libertarianism and anarchism) The belief that the state is a legitimate societal organization. [1912]
    Antonym: anarchism

#### Hyponyms

* (belief in strong central government): authoritarianism, totalitarianism, fascism

#### Derived terms

* nanny statism
* statist
* welfare statism

#### Related terms

* statocracy

#### Translations
### References

* “statism, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French statisme.

### Noun

statism n (uncountable)
* stasis (state of motionlessness)