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.

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