Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism);
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
fascism \fasc"ism\ (f[a^]sh"[i^]z'm) n.
1. a political theory advocating an authoritarian
hierarchical government; -- opposed to democracy and
liberalism.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. an authoritarian system of government under absolute
control of a single dictator, allowing no political
opposition, forcibly suppressing dissent, and rigidly
controlling most industrial and economic activities. Such
regimes usually try to achieve popularity by a strongly
nationalistic appeal, often mixed with racism.
[PJC]
3. Specifically, the Fascist movement led by Benito Mussolini
in Italy from 1922 to 1943.
[PJC]
4. broadly, a tendency toward or support of a strongly
authoritarian or dictatorial control of government or
other organizations; -- often used pejoratively in this
sense.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
fascism
n 1: a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical
government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
72 Moby Thesaurus words for "fascism":
Jim Crow, Jim Crow law, Nazism, anti-Semitism, apartheid,
argumentum baculinum, big stick, black power, black supremacy,
centralism, chauvinism, class consciousness, class distinction,
class hatred, class prejudice, class war, collectivism, color bar,
color line, communism, constitutionalism, democratism, despotism,
discrimination, domination, domineering, federalism, feudalism,
feudality, governmentalism, heavy hand, high hand, imperialism,
iron boot, iron hand, iron heel, know-nothingism, male chauvinist,
minority prejudice, monarchism, national socialism, neofascism,
oppression, parliamentarianism, parliamentarism, pluralism,
political principles, race hatred, race prejudice, race snobbery,
racial discrimination, racialism, racism, red-baiting,
reign of terror, republicanism, royalism, segregation,
sex discrimination, sexism, social barrier, social discrimination,
socialism, statism, superpatriotism, terrorism, thought control,
tyranny, ultranationalism, white power, white supremacy,
xenophobia