[an-er-kee] 
| 1. | a state of society without government or law. |
| 2. | political and social disorder due to the absence of governmental control: The death of the king was followed by a year of anarchy. |
| 3. | a theory that regards the absence of all direct or coercive government as a political ideal and that proposes the cooperative and voluntary association of individuals and groups as the principal mode of organized society. |
| 4. | confusion; chaos; disorder: Intellectual and moral anarchy followed his loss of faith. |
| an·ar·chy (ān'ər-kē) n. pl. an·ar·chies
[New Latin anarchia, from Greek anarkhiā, from anarkhos, without a ruler : an-, without; see a-1 + arkhos, ruler; see -arch.] |
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