Anarchy \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.
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Spread anarchy and terror all around. --Cowper.
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2. Hence, confusion or disorder, in general.
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There being then . . . an anarchy, as I may term it,
in authors and their re?koning of years. --Fuller.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
anarchy
n : a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from
a failure of government) [syn: lawlessness]
WordNet (r) 2.0
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
ANARCHY. The absence of all political government; by extension, it signifies
confusion in government.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
lawlessness
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