- a state of society without government or law.
- political and social disorder due to the absence of governmental control: The death of the king was followed by a year of anarchy.
- anarchism (def. 1).
- lack of obedience to an authority; insubordination: the anarchy of his rebellious teenage years.
- confusion and disorder: Intellectual and moral anarchy followed his loss of faith.It was impossible to find the book I was looking for in the anarchy of his bookshelves.
- general lawlessness and disorder, esp when thought to result from an absence or failure of government
- the absence or lack of government
- the absence of any guiding or uniting principle; disorder; chaos
- the theory or practice of political anarchism
