What does anarchy mean?
Definitions for anarchy
ˈæn ər kian·ar·chy
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Princeton's WordNet
anarchy, lawlessnessnoun
a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government)
Wiktionary
anarchynoun
The state of a society being without authoritarians or a governing body.
anarchynoun
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.
anarchynoun
A chaotic and confusing absence of any form of political authority or government.
anarchynoun
confusion in general; disorder
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Anarchynoun
Want of government; a state in which every man is unaccountable; a state without magistracy.
Etymology: ἀναϱχία.
Where eldest night
And chaos, ancestors of nature, hold
Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise
Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. Paradise Lost.Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life; the adjusting power and freedom being an effect and consequence of maturer thinking. Jonathan Swift.
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anarchy
Anarchy is a political philosophy or societal state that advocates for the absence of a centralized government, hierarchy, and rules or laws imposed by an authoritative figure or institution. It promotes voluntary cooperation within communities without any form of coercion or control. It is often associated with chaos and disorder, but in its true sense, it seeks a society based on mutual aid, harmony, and freedom for individuals.
Webster Dictionary
Anarchynoun
absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion
Anarchynoun
hence, confusion or disorder, in general
Etymology: [Gr. : cf. F. anarchie. See Anarch.]
Wikidata
Anarchy
Anarchy has more than one definition. Some use the term "anarchy" to refer to a society without a publicly enforced government or violently enforced political authority. When used in this sense, anarchy may or may not be intended to imply political disorder or lawlessness within a society. Others, including most individuals who self-identify as anarchists, use the term to imply a system of governance, mostly theoretical at a nation state level. There are also other forms of anarchy that attempt to avoid the use of coercion, violence, force and authority, while still producing a productive and desirable society. Anarchy is also a technical issue of economic science.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
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 Dictionary and Gazetteer
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.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of anarchy in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of anarchy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of anarchy in a Sentence
Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
The choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either. There is danger that, if the court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.
A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.
There's a generation of young Afghans who have tried to build a future for themselves, around our model, and we're now walking away, if the country collapses into anarchy and chaos, do we owe them nothing ?
Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.
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- فوضىArabic
- анархіяBelarusian
- безвластие, анархия, безредиеBulgarian
- anarquiaCatalan, Valencian
- bezvládí, anarchie, zmatekCzech
- anarkiDanish
- AnarchieGerman
- αναρχίαGreek
- anarkio, anarĥioEsperanto
- anarquíaSpanish
- anarhiaEstonian
- anarkiaBasque
- هرج و مرجPersian
- anarkiaFinnish
- anarchieFrench
- anarquíaGalician
- אנרכיהHebrew
- अराजकताHindi
- anarchiaHungarian
- անիշխանությունArmenian
- stjórnleysiIcelandic
- anarchiaItalian
- 無政府状態, 跳梁跋扈Japanese
- អនាធិបតេយ្យKhmer
- 무정부 상태, 無政府狀態Korean
- anarchiaLatin
- turekoretangaMāori
- анархијаMacedonian
- regeringsloosheid, anarchieDutch
- vanstyre, anarkiNorwegian
- anarchiaPolish
- anarquiaPortuguese
- anarhieRomanian
- анархия, безвластиеRussian
- безвлашће, anarhija, bezvlašće, bezakonje, бесправље, анархија, безакоње, bespravljeSerbo-Croatian
- අරාජිකSinhala, Sinhalese
- anarkiSwedish
- อนาธิปไตยThai
- anarşiTurkish
- анархіяUkrainian
- tình trạng vô chính phủVietnamese
- 无政府Chinese
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