anarchy

  1. Noun.  (uncountable) The state of a society being without authoritarians or a governing body.
  2. Noun.  (uncountable) Anarchism; the political theory that a community is best organized by the voluntary cooperation of individuals, rather than by a government, which is regarded as being coercive by nature.
  3. Noun.  (countable) A chaotic and confusing absence of any form of political authority or government.
  4. Noun.  confusion in general; disorder.

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