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adjective
1. of or relating to government by total, unrestrained power.
For a decade, the population endured the absolutist reign of a tyrant.
2. characterized by ideas, or a belief in ideas, whose truth is unconditional and not subject to any external standard.
The group has absolutist views on the differences between humans and animals.
noun
one who regards certain ideas as being unconditionally true.
He is an absolutist when it comes to freedom of speech.