tyranny; despotic rule; oppressive rule
A political or philosophical term for rule by oppressive, arbitrary, or absolute power. In ordinary Japanese, 暴政 or 専制政治 is often more transparent.
She took up the problem of the tyranny of the majority.
その小説はティラニーに支配された社会を描いている。
The novel depicts a society ruled by tyranny.
民主主義 (democracy, rule by the people) stands in direct political contrast to ティラニー (tyranny, oppressive one-sided rule).
A katakana term corresponding to the English gloss "tyranny"; no borrowing language or detailed etymology is specified.