anarchismnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈæn.ə.kɪ.zəm/us/-ɚ-/the political belief that there should be little or no formal or official organization to society but that people should work freely together
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Social order & disorder
- anarchic
- anarchist
- anarchy
- ASBO
- breach
- chaos
- disturb
- instability
- lawless
- mayhem
- organized chaos
- pandemonium
- pell-mell
- tinderbox
- turbulence
- turbulent
- turmoil
- unrest
- upheaval
- water cannon
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Examples from literature
- It differed fundamentally from Russian anarchism in that it was directed against alien rulers of another faith and another civilisation.
- Military anarchism shall be destroyed if England, France, and Russia can destroy it.
- Such philosophy had always seemed to him to savor dangerously of anarchism.
- The branch librarian assures me that the brand of anarchism that they profess has grown perceptibly milder since they have met in the library.
- The third clause was about the growth and spread of anarchism.