Definition of anarchy Anarchy
/æˈnɚki/ - [anerkee] - an•ar•chy
We found 12 definitions of anarchy from 8 different sources.
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What does anarchy mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: anarchies |
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| anarchy - a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government) | ||
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| disorder a disturbance of the peace or of public order | ||
| governing, government activity, governance, government, administration the act of governing; exercising authority; "regulations for the governing of state prisons"; "he had considerable experience of government" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- anarchy (Noun)
The state of a society being without authorities or a governing body. - anarchy (Noun)
Anarchism; 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. - anarchy (Noun)
A chaotic and confusing absence of any form of political authority or government. - anarchy (Noun)
Confusion in general; disorder.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- anarchy (n.)
Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion. - anarchy (n.)
Hence, confusion or disorder, in general.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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anarchy
The state of a society being without authoritarians or a governing body.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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anarchy
an′ark-i, n. the want of government in a state: political confusion: conflict of opinion.—adjs. Anarch′al (rare); Anarch′ic, Anarch′ical.—v.t. Anarch′ise.—ns. An′archism, anarchy: the negation of government—the name adopted by a phase of revolutionary socialism associated with the names of Proudhon and Bakunin. Their ideal of society was of one without government of any kind, when every man should be a law unto himself; An′archist, An′arch, one who promotes anarchy. [Gr. a, an, neg., archē, government.]
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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anarchy
Want of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power, or where the laws are not efficient, and individuals do what they please with impunity; political confusion; hence, confusion in general.
Wikipedia 
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In the first use, an "anarchy" might be a made-up or real society based on a group's beliefs about anarchism (see anarcho-communism).
In the second use, "anarchy" has to do with having no political order. The says that there is only one nation, Somalia, that is in a state of anarchy. In Somalia, the government is no longer in control, and some parts of the country are ruled by mobs and warlords who sometimes fight one another.
There are a small number of other places (Afghanistan, Albania, Burundi, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Rwanda) where government is "emerging" or "transitional", and were in anomie in the near past. The DC says that the Solomon Islands is "tending towards" anomie because "violence, corruption and crime have undermined stability and civil society".
When there is no political order, more than one government or political authority might sometimes compete for the same food, oil, land, or groups of people. The word "Anarchy" to used to describe this. However, because there is "more than one" competing authority, a better word might be "polyarchy". The difference between "anarchy" and "polyarchy" is important to someone who thinks that true anarchy would work well. The word for someone who thinks this is "anarchist", and the word for this kind of thinking is "anarchism". Anarchism has been thought about for hundreds of years.
Where the word comes from.
The word anarchy comes from the Greek word αναρχία ("anarchia"), which means "without a leader".
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🔤- anarchy, noun, singular of anarchies.
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