anarchism

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: an=ar=chism

CIDE DICTIONARY

anarchism, n. [Cf. F. anarchisme.].

 The doctrine or practice of anarchists.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

anarchism, n. the doctrine that all government should be abolished.

Etymology

F anarchisme (as ANARCHY)

THESAURUS

anarchism

Bolshevikism, Bolshevism, Carbonarism, Castroism, Jacobinism, Maoism, Marxism, New Left, Old Left, Sinn Feinism, anarcho-syndicalism, anarchy, antinomianism, chaos, communism, confusion, criminal syndicalism, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disruption, distemper, extreme left, extreme left wing, extremism, left-wing extremism, lynch law, misrule, mob law, mob rule, mobocracy, nihilism, not, ochlocracy, primal chaos, radicalism, radicalization, rebellion, revolution, revolutionism, sans-culotterie, sans-culottism, syndicalism, terrorism, tohubohu, turmoil, ultraconservatism, ultraism, unruliness, utopianism

ROGET THESAURUS

anarchism

Disorder

N disorder, derangement, irregularity, anomaly, anarchy, anarchism, want of method, untidiness, disunion, discord, confusion, confusedness, mishmash, mix, disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber, cahotage, farrago, mess, mash, muddle, muss, hash, hodgepodge, hotch-potch, hotch-pot, imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum, medley, mere mixture, fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra, rudis indigestaque moles, complexity, turmoil, ferment, to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble, whirlwind, bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors, Bedlam, all hell broke loose, bull in a china shop, all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay, pretty kettle of fish, pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business, disorderly person, disorderly persons offence, misdemeanor, slattern, slut (libertine), disorderly, orderless, out of order, out of place, out of gear, irregular, desultory, anomalous, acephalous, deranged, aimless, disorganized, straggling, unmethodical, immethodical, unsymmetric, unsystematic, untidy, slovenly, dislocated, out of sorts, promiscuous, indiscriminate, chaotic, anarchical, unarranged &c (arrange), confused, deranged, topsy-turvy, shapeless, disjointed, out of joint, troublous, riotous, complex, irregularly, by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and starts, pellmell, higgledy-piggledy, helter-skelter, harum-scarum, in a ferment, at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes, upside down, the cart before the horse, hysteron proteron, chaos is come again, the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.