Definitions for anarchism

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anarchism an·ar·chism

Spelling: [an-er-kiz-uh m]

IPA: /ˈæn ərˌkɪz əm/

Anarchism is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 530 anagrams from letters in anarchism (aachimnrs).

Definitions for anarchism

noun

1. a doctrine urging the abolition of government or governmental restraint as the indispensable condition for full social and political liberty.
2. the methods or practices of anarchists, as the use of violence to undermine government.
3. anarchy.

Origin of anarchism

First recorded in 1635-45; anarch(y) + -ism

Examples for anarchism

If so, get Plechanoff's "anarchism and Socialism" and read it carefully.

Socialism is not "the same as anarchism," my friend, but its very opposite.

They also brought labor unions, anarchism, socialism, and, of course, absinthe.

Or perhaps you are troubled about the charge that Socialism and anarchism are related.

anarchism--men die for that, they undergo intolerable insults.

The third clause was about the growth and spread of anarchism.

Capitalism is the one system that requires absolute objective law, yet they want to combine capitalism and anarchism.

Truth to say, Chief Inspector Heat thought but little of anarchism.

But anarchism is a logical outgrowth of the anti-intellectual side of collectivism.

Such philosophy had always seemed to him to savor dangerously of anarchism.