anarchy

anarchy
    n 1: a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from
         a failure of government) [syn: {anarchy}, {lawlessness}]
    

Anarchy \An"arch*y\, n. [Gr. ?: cf. F. anarchie. See {Anarch}.]
   1. Absence of government; the state of society where there is
      no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political
      confusion.
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            Spread anarchy and terror all around. --Cowper.
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   2. Hence, confusion or disorder, in general.
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            There being then . . . an anarchy, as I may term it,
            in authors and their re?koning of years. --Fuller.
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ANARCHY. The absence of all political government; by extension, it signifies
confusion in government.
    

85 Moby Thesaurus words for "anarchy":
      aloofness, amorphia, amorphism, amorphousness, anarchism,
      anarcho-syndicalism, anomie, antinomianism, blurriness, chaos,
      confusion, criminal syndicalism, criminalism, criminality,
      diffusion, discontinuity, discreteness, disjunction, dislocation,
      disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, dispersal, dispersion,
      disruption, dissolution, distemper, entropy,
      fabulous formless darkness, formlessness, foul-up, fuzziness,
      hassle, haziness, illegality, illicit business, illicitness,
      impermissibility, incoherence, inconsistency, indecisiveness,
      indefiniteness, indeterminateness, lawlessness, legal flaw,
      license, lynch law, messiness, misrule, mistiness, mix-up, mob law,
      mob rule, mobocracy, morass, muddle, nihilism, nonadhesion,
      noncohesion, obscurity, ochlocracy, orderlessness, outlawry,
      primal chaos, rebellion, reign of terror, revolution, riot,
      scattering, screw-up, separateness, shapelessness, snafu,
      syndicalism, technical flaw, tohubohu, turmoil, unadherence,
      unadhesiveness, unclearness, unlawfulness, unruliness, untenacity,
      vagueness, wrongfulness