noun
- the principle or policy of concentrating extensive economic, political, and related controls in the state at the cost of individual liberty.
- support of or belief in the sovereignty of a state, usually a republic.
noun
- the theory or practice of concentrating economic and political power in the state, resulting in a weak position for the individual or community with respect to the government
c.1600, in reference to church-state matters; 1919 as the opposite of individualism; from state (n.) + -ism.