Anarchy

anarchy (noun)

1. Absence of any form of political authority.
2. Political disorder and confusion.
3. Absence of any cohesive principle, such as a common standard or purpose.
4. Absence or insufficiency of government; a state of society in which there is no capable supreme power, and in which the several functions of the state are performed badly or not at all; social and political confusion.
5. Specifically A social theory which regards the union of order with the absence of all direct government of man by man as the political ideal; absolute individual liberty.
6. Confusion in general.
7. Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion.
8. Hence, confusion or disorder, in general.
9. The state of a society being without authority or a governing body.