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Anarchy vs. Tyranny — What's the Difference?

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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