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Definition of autocracy : 1. Independent or self- derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.
2. Political independence or absolute sovereignty ( of a state); autonomy.
3. Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat.
4. The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle.

Synonyms:

coalition, monocracy, big government, totalism, totalitarianism, autarky, czarism, federation, nation, despotism, democracy, over, government, dictatorship, tyranny, anarchy, fascism, one-man rule, authoritarianism, oligarchy, Caesarism, centralism, autarchy, totalitarian government, monarchy, protectorate, banana republic, absolutism, republic, politics, caretaker government, country, autonomy

free will, choice, spontaneity, option, responsibility, volition, determination, discretion, will

Usage examples:

• We talk about Germany being an autocracy it's nothing to what this country has become!
• Men were satisfied with having brought about a victory over autocracy and militarism. - "My Three Years in America", Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff.
• It was not that any established custom or right bounded the arbitrary power of domestic autocracy. - "Across the Zodiac", Percy Greg.