Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
the political policy of concentrating power in a central organization;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Centralism \Cen"tral*ism\, n.
1. The state or condition of being central; the combination
of several parts into one whole; centralization.
[1913 Webster]
2. The system by which power is centralized, as in a
government.
[1913 Webster] centralist
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
centralism
n 1: the political policy of concentrating power in a central
organization