anarchy

Meanings

Plural: anarchies

Noun

• a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government)
• The state of a society being without authorities or an authoritative governing body.
• 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.
• A chaotic and confusing absence of any form of political authority or government.
• Confusion in general; disorder.

Synonyms

anarchism, disorder, lawlessness

Antonyms

antonym(s) of, nonanarchy, order