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Anarchy

Anarchy Meaning & Definition
Anarchy Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Anarchy?

[n] a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government)

Synonyms | Synonyms for Anarchy: lawlessness

Related Terms | Find terms related to Anarchy: aloofness | amorphia | amorphism | amorphousness | anarchism | anarcho-syndicalism | anomie | antinomianism | blurriness | chaos | confusion | criminal syndicalism | criminalism | criminality | diffusion | discontinuity | discreteness | disjunction | dislocation | disorder | disorderliness | disorganization | dispersal | dispersion | disruption | dissolution | distemper | entropy | fabulous formless darkness | formlessness | foul-up | fuzziness | hassle | haziness | illegality | illicit business | illicitness | impermissibility | incoherence | inconsistency | indecisiveness | indefiniteness | indeterminateness | lawlessness | legal flaw | license | lynch law | messiness | misrule | mistiness | mix-up | mob law | mob rule | mobocracy | morass | muddle | nihilism | nonadhesion | noncohesion | obscurity | ochlocracy | orderlessness | outlawry | primal chaos | rebellion | reign of terror | revolution | riot | scattering | screw-up | separateness | shapelessness | snafu | syndicalism | technical flaw | tohubohu | turmoil | unadherence | unadhesiveness | unclearness | unlawfulness | unruliness | untenacity | vagueness | wrongfulness

See Also | disorder | nihilism

Anarchy In Webster's Dictionary

\An"arch*y\, n. [Gr. ?: cf. F. anarchie. See {Anarch}.] 1. Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion. Spread anarchy and terror all around. --Cowper. 2. Hence, confusion or disorder, in general. There being then . . . an anarchy, as I may term it, in authors and their re?koning of years. --Fuller.

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