Anarchy

Quick meaning: Anarchy is a noun meaning (uncountable) The state of a society being without authorities or an authoritative governing body.

Meaning

(uncountable) The state of a society being without authorities or an authoritative governing body.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A chaotic and confusing absence of any form of political authority or government.
2. Confusion in general; disorder.
3. (uncountable, rare) The political theory that a community is best organized by the voluntary cooperation of individuals, rather than by a government, which is regarded as being coercive by nature.

Example Sentences

Oui, l’anarchie c’est l'ordre; car, le gouvernement c’est la guerre civile.

And each dweller, panic-stricken, Felt his heart with terror sicken Hearing the tempestuous cry Of the triumph of Anarchy.

Rather than democracy, justice as well as economic efficiency require a pure and unrestricted private property society – an ‘anarchy of production’ – in which no one rules anybody, and all producers’ relations are voluntary, and thus mutually beneficial.

La propriété et la royauté sont en démolition dès le commencement du monde ; comme l’homme cherche la justice dans l’égalité, la société cherche l’ordre dans l’anarchie. Anarchie, absence de maître, de souverain, telle est la forme de gouvernement dont nous approchons tous les jours, et que l’habitude invétérée de prendre l’homme pour règle et sa volonté pour loi nous fait regarder comme le comble du désordre et l’expression du chaos.

Word Forms

• anarchies

Synonyms for anarchy

Depending on context, synonyms include disorder, anarchism, lawlessness.

Antonyms for anarchy

Common opposites include order.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lawlessness, lawless, misrule, haphazard, uncontrolled, disorder.

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