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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Anarchy \An"arch*y\, noun [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.
Spread anarchy and terror all around. --Cowper.
2. Hence, confusion or disorder, in general.
There being then . . . an anarchy, as I may term it, in authors and their re?koning of years. --Fuller. ||
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
anarchy
noun: 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
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