anarchy
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
New Latin anarchia < Ancient Greek ἀναρχία (anarchía) < ἀν- (an-), “‘not’”), + ἀρχός (archos), “‘ruler, authority’”).
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[edit] Noun
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anarchy (countable and uncountable; plural anarchies)
- (uncountable) The state of a society being without authoritarians or a governing body.
- (countable) A chaotic and confusing absence of any form of political authority or government.
- (uncountable) Anarchism; the political theory that a community is best organized by the voluntary cooperation of individuals, rather than by government, which is regarded as being coercive by nature.
- confusion in general; disorder
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- (confusion in general): Anarchists feel it is inappropriate to use anarchy to mean “a state of chaos or confusion”. However, many non-anarchists do use it that way.
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absence of any form of political authority or government
political disorder and confusion
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