Anarchy

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  anarchy
       n : a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from
           a failure of government) [syn: {lawlessness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ANARCHY. The absence of all political government; by extension, it signifies
  confusion in government.