ANARCHISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anarchism mean? 

• ANARCHISM (noun)
  The noun ANARCHISM has 1 sense:

1. a political theory favoring the abolition of governments

  Familiarity information: ANARCHISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANARCHISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A political theory favoring the abolition of governments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("anarchism" is a kind of...):

ideology; political orientation; political theory (an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation)

Derivation:

anarchistic (of or related to anarchism or tending toward anarchism)

 Context examples 

For the first time he heard of socialism, anarchism, and single tax, and learned that there were warring social philosophies.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)