Difference between Authoritarian and Despotic

AUTHORITARIAN vs DESPOTIC: NOUN

Likened to a dictator in severity
Expecting unquestioning obedience
Characterized by or favoring absolute obedience to authority, as against individual freedom.
Tending to tell other people what to do in a peremptory or arrogant manner. : dictatorial.
Of, or relating to, absolute obedience to an authority.
Characterised by a tyrannical obedience to an authority; dictatorial.
Tending to impose one's demands upon others as if one was an authority.
Characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty

Belonging to or having the characteristics of a despot
Ruled by or characteristic of a despot
Characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty
Having the character of, or pertaining to, a despot; absolute in power; possessing and abusing unlimited power; evincing despotism; tyrannical; arbitrary.
Of or pertaining to a despot or tyrant.
Acting or ruling as a despot, tyrannical.

Having absolute sovereignty
Pertaining to or of the nature of a despot or despotism; unlimited; arbitrary; tyrannical: as, a despotic ruler; despotic government or power; a despotic will.

Bossy, Assertive, Patriarchal, Interventionist, Tyrant, Totalitarian, Unpermissive, Overbearing, Domineering, Dictator, Undemocratic, Tyrannical, Despotic, Dictatorial, Autocratic

Tyrannous, Authoritarianism, Dictatorship, Tyranny, Oppressive, Autocracy, Despotism, Totalitarian, Repressive, Despotical, Undemocratic, Authoritarian, Autocratic, Dictatorial, Tyrannical

Bossy, Assertive, Patriarchal, Interventionist, Tyrant, Totalitarian, Unpermissive, Overbearing, Domineering, Dictator, Undemocratic, Tyrannical, Despotic, Dictatorial, Autocratic

Tyrannous, Authoritarianism, Dictatorship, Tyranny, Oppressive, Autocracy, Despotism, Totalitarian, Repressive, Despotical, Undemocratic, Authoritarian, Autocratic, Dictatorial, Tyrannical

Monotheistic religions are intolerant, power hungry and authoritarian.
Guttman criterion, as follows: Authoritarian Role Preferance, Authoritarian Role Pressure, Equalitarian Role Preferance, Equalitarian Role Pressure, Balanced Manager, People Oriented Manager, Assumed
Furthermore, the students from neglectful and authoritarian families presented the highest levels of school maladjustment, without differences between neglectful and authoritarian or between indulgent
Authoritarian The authoritarian parent attempts to shape, control, and evaluate the behavior and attitudes of the child in accordance with a set standard of.
Conversely, authoritarian regimes might adopt takings clauses for disingenuous reasons, suggesting that takings clauses in authoritarian regimes will fail to reduce expropriation risks.
The authoritarian values he brought with him into the military school are further strengthened by the authoritarian culture in the military.
Although prior studies have found the negative relation of authoritarian leadership with workplace outcome, authoritarian leadership styles are particularly prevalent in emerging markets.
Some authoritarian governments are more efficacious at wielding power than other authoritarian governments; the same may be true of democratic states.
It is impossible to learn via authoritarian means how to do things in non-authoritarian ways.
An authoritarian theocracy, a state ruled by religious leaders, quickly replaced the secular authoritarian regime.

Romans, who feared above all else the return to despotic monarchy.
ALARUNappears to assert that Francis always had a despotic tendency.
Absolute rule; tyrannyneed despotic Government, being incapable of any other.
Theexternal danger to be feared, of course, was despotic government.
In despotic systems, success makes the despotism ever stronger.
In his internal Philips government Philip was fully despotic.
Wasinger, Governmental Immunity: Despotic Mantle or Creature of Necessity?
Rome rising up to depose a despotic king.
His superiors treated him in coolly despotic fashion.
Each included an effort to replace one despotic royal sovereign with another despotic royal sovereign.