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anarchy noun [ ˈanəki ]

• a state of disorder due to absence or non-recognition of authority or other controlling systems.
Similar: lawlessness, absence of government, nihilism, mobocracy, revolution, insurrection, riot, rebellion, mutiny, disorder, disorganization, misrule, chaos, tumult, turmoil, mayhem, pandemonium,
Opposite: government, order,
• absence of government and absolute freedom of the individual, regarded as a political ideal.
Origin: mid 16th century: via medieval Latin from Greek anarkhia, from anarkhos, from an- ‘without’ + arkhos ‘chief, ruler’.


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