ANARCHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anarchy mean? 

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

1. a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANARCHY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

anarchy; lawlessness

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

disorder (a disturbance of the peace or of public order)

Domain category:

administration; governance; governing; government; government activity (the act of governing; exercising authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "anarchy"):

nihilism (complete denial of all established authority and institutions)

Derivation:

anarchical (without law or control)

anarchist (an advocate of anarchism)

 Context examples 

Idealism led him to philosophic anarchy, and his family threw him off.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)