totalising
Making comprehensively unified
Totalising means encompassing everything into a single unified framework or system, often with the implication of being reductive or oppressive.
The term appears mostly in academic and critical contexts, describing theories or ideologies that attempt to explain all phenomena through one lens: a totalising narrative that leaves no room for alternative perspectives.
Also spelled totalizing.
Related to totalitarian in its suggestion of all-encompassing control.
Including everything without exception
- holisticAddressing interconnected wholes
- exhaustiveCovering all possibilities
- synopticProviding general overview
- encyclopedicCovering all branches of knowledge
panoptic · thorough · complete · systematic · sweeping · wide-ranging · all-inclusive · in-depth
Favoring absolute control
- oppressiveUnjustly harsh or stifling
- coerciveUsing pressure to compel
- controllingExerting authority over others
- dictatorialImposing absolute control
tyrannical · despotic · autocratic · repressive · subjugating · overbearing · overpowering · monolithic
Combining elements into unity
- integratingCombining into a whole
- amalgamatingUniting into a whole
- consolidatingCombining dispersed elements
- harmonizingCreating musical agreement
homogenizing · fusing · melding · blending · coalescing · combining · assimilating · incorporating
all-encompassing
Including everything without exception
- holisticAddressing interconnected wholes
- exhaustiveCovering all possibilities
- synopticProviding general overview
encyclopedic · panoptic · thorough · complete · systematic · sweeping · wide-ranging · all-inclusive · in-depth · detailed
authoritarian
Favoring absolute control
- oppressiveUnjustly harsh or stifling
- coerciveUsing pressure to compel
- controllingExerting authority over others
dictatorial · tyrannical · despotic · autocratic · repressive · subjugating · overbearing · overpowering · monolithic · hegemonic
synthesizing
Combining elements into unity
- integratingCombining into a whole
- amalgamatingUniting into a whole
- consolidatingCombining dispersed elements
harmonizing · homogenizing · fusing · melding · blending · coalescing · combining · assimilating · incorporating · converging
totalisingpartial
Favoring one side
piecemeal · fragmentary · incomplete · selective · localized
totalisingpluralistic
Allowing coexisting differences
relativistic · perspectival · situated · contingent · contextual
totalisingpluralistic
Allowing coexisting differences
pluralising · fragmenting · diversifying · particularising · perspectival
total, totally, totality, totals, totaled, totalitarian, totalitarianism, subtotal, totalize