Anarchy vs. Tyranny — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Anarchy and Tyranny
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Anarchy
Anarchy is a society being freely constituted without authorities or a governing body. It may also refer to a society or group of people that entirely rejects a set hierarchy.
Tyranny
Cruel and oppressive government or rule
Refugees fleeing tyranny and oppression
Anarchy
Absence of any form of political authority.
Tyranny
Unjust or oppressive governmental power
"He tended to see the Crown as the benign center of the empire and Parliament as the malevolent source of tyranny" (Gordon S. Wood).
Anarchy
Political disorder and confusion.
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Tyranny
A government in which a single ruler is vested with absolute power
People liberated from a brutal tyranny.
Anarchy
Absence of any cohesive principle, such as a common standard or purpose.
Tyranny
The office, authority, or jurisdiction of an absolute ruler
Pisistratus held the tyranny of Athens.
Anarchy
(uncountable) The state of a society being without authorities or an authoritative governing body.
Tyranny
The oppressive or unjust use of power
Parental tyranny.
Anarchy
(uncountable) 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.
Tyranny
A tyrannical act
Refused to submit to her husband's tyrannies.
Anarchy
(countable) A chaotic and confusing absence of any form of political authority or government.
Tyranny
An oppressive or harshly limiting condition
The tyranny of social expectations.
Anarchy
Confusion in general; disorder.
Tyranny
A government in which a single ruler (a tyrant) has absolute power; this system of government.
Anarchy
Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion.
Spread anarchy and terror all around.
Tyranny
The office or jurisdiction of an absolute ruler.
Anarchy
Hence, confusion or disorder, in general.
There being then . . . an anarchy, as I may term it, in authors and their re koning of years.
Tyranny
Absolute power, or its use.
Anarchy
A state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government)
Tyranny
A system of government in which power is exercised on behalf of the ruler or ruling class, without regard to the wishes of the governed.
Tyranny
Extreme severity or rigour.
Tyranny
The government or authority of a tyrant; a country governed by an absolute ruler; hence, arbitrary or despotic exercise of power; exercise of power over subjects and others with a rigor not authorized by law or justice, or not requisite for the purposes of government.
"Sir," would he [Seneca] say, "an emperor mote needBe virtuous and hate tyranny."
Tyranny
Cruel government or discipline; as, the tyranny of a schoolmaster.
Tyranny
Severity; rigor; inclemency.
The tyranny of the open night's too roughFor nature to endure.
Tyranny
A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Tyranny
Dominance through threat of punishment and violence
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