statism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪdɪzm/
ipa: /ˈsteɪdɪzəm/
ipa: /ˈsteɪtɪzm/
ipa: /ˈsteɪtɪzəm/
Etymology: From stat(e) + -ism. Doublet of etatism. First attested in c. 1600.
Senses: examples: text: Religion turned into Statisme, will soone prooue Atheisme.
ref: 1609, William Barlow, An Answer to a Catholike English-man, page 370:
glosses: Synonym of secularism: subservience of religious issues to political officials and expediency.
synonyms: word: secularism
extra: subservience of religious issues to political officials and expediency
examples: text: My great Cousin hauing euermore
From my greene yeares accepted my aduise
In points of statisme...
ref: 1608, J. F. Le Petit, translated by Edward Grimeston, General History of the Netherlands, page 1113:
glosses: Synonym of statecraft or statesmanship.
synonyms: word: statecraft or statesmanship
examples: text: [The Ten Commandments] have formed the basis of every system of statism adopted by the civilized communities of the earth.
ref: 1839, John Hobart Caunter, Poetry of the Pentateuch, page 189:
glosses: Synonym of government or governance.
synonyms: word: government or governance
examples: text: Near-synonyms: big government, dirigisme
text: Bismarck... believes in State insurance in State activities, in place of individual action. But this is not Socialism. It is Statism.
ref: 1890, W.D.P. Bliss, What is Christian Socialism?, page 21:
text: 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’.
ref: 1940 November 5, The Sun, Baltimore, p. 5
text: 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.
ref: 1971 January 10, Stan Lehr, Louis Rossetto, “The New Right Credo–Libertarianism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: […]; 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.
ref: 1996, Louis Rossetto, “19th Century Nostrums are not Solutions to 21st Century Problems”, in Mute, volume 1, number 4, →ISSN:
qualifier: political philosophy
synonyms: etatism
authoritarianism
totalitarianism
hypernyms: paternalism
coordinate_terms: statolatry
glosses: The belief that most or all political power should be centralized in national governments.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1854 July 1, The Times, London, p. 9
text: To him... we owe that sentiment of nationalism prevailing over statism... without which the Union would have parted.
ref: 1875, A.H. Bullock, Intellectual Leadership Illustrated in American History, page 37:
qualifier: political philosophy
synonyms: regionalism
federalism
provincialism
glosses: The belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to provincial governments.
qualifier: political philosophy
antonyms: anarchism
glosses: The belief that the state is a legitimate societal organization.
Hyponyms: sense: belief in strong central government
word: authoritarianism
sense: belief in strong central government
word: totalitarianism
sense: belief in strong central government
word: fascism
Derived terms: nanny statism
statist
welfare statism
Related terms: statocracy