Anarchy definition

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The state of a society being without authoritarians or a governing body.
Anarchism; the political theory that a community is best organized by the voluntary cooperation of individuals, rather than by a government, which is regarded as being coercive by nature.
A chaotic and confusing absence of any form of political authority or government.
confusion in general; disorder

Anarchists feel it is inappropriate to use to mean “a state of chaos or confusion”. However, many non-anarchists do use it that way.