What's the difference between anarchism and anarchy?

Anarchism


Definition:

  • (n.) The doctrine or practice of anarchists.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Severe overloading can increase microdamage alarmingly, its repair by BMUs too, and can cause woven bone formation, anarchic resorption and a regional acceleratory phenomenon.
  • (2) Afternoon Delights doesn't have anything approaching a mission statement – it's just two middle-aged men arsing about, frankly – but its gleeful anarchism can be riotously funny: witness the pair as free runners, declaring "war against the urban environment", or their magnificently coiffed Rock'n'Rollers, with the aid of subtitles, showing off their moves on the streets of Ashford, Kent.
  • (3) The following week I bought the EP, expecting more of the same anarchic techno-punk.
  • (4) Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite " ("I told you I was ill") now reminds mourners of Spike's anarchic wit and wisdom.
  • (5) Rebus, promised the Scottish author, will be "as stubborn and anarchic as ever", and will find himself in trouble with the author's latest creation, Malcolm Fox, of Edinburgh's internal affairs unit.
  • (6) "It unfairly implies that anyone involved in anarchism should be known to the police and is involved in an dangerous activity," said Jason Sands, an anarchist from South London.
  • (7) Now I’ve found some of my favourite comedy here: the anarchic young sketch groups, Stewart Lee’s Top Gear bit, James Acaster’s bit on apricots and Daniel Sloss’s unapologetically dark atheist stuff spring to mind.
  • (8) It was, I recall, an anarchic traffic jam of ex-squatters, ravers, and proponents of free love that chuntered slowly and messily through the byways and sometimes the highways of Thatcher’s Britain.
  • (9) This anarchic spirit was often misunderstood by readers, many of whom mistook her Catholic chic, her militantly anti-humanist fictional aesthetic and her formal elegance for the rightwing misanthropy of an Evelyn Waugh.
  • (10) But in the semi-anarchic, on-the-ground Somali context, it is fantasy politics.
  • (11) His colleague Steve Wright, whose anarchic 1980s Radio 1 show was credited with pioneering the much imitated "zoo radio" format, won the academy's outstanding contribution award.
  • (12) There was no warning about other political groups, but next to an image of the anarchist emblem, the City of Westminster police's "counter terrorist focus desk" called for anti-anarchist whistleblowers stating: "Anarchism is a political philosophy which considers the state undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, and instead promotes a stateless society, or anarchy.
  • (13) Though he would go on to become feted by the fashion establishment, he never lost the anarchic approach of his youth.
  • (14) At the peak of his success, Ramis would claim that his anarchic, freewheeling comic style was inspired both by an early love of the Marx brothers and a brief, post-college job working at a Missouri mental institution.
  • (15) The authors describe in particular the present bio-chemical definition of so-called type I polycystic ovary syndrome: very high and anarchical secretion of LH by the pituitary, explosive response of LH during the LH-RH test, contrasting with normal levels of FSH under basal conditions and after stimulation with LH-RH.
  • (16) These abnormalities are associated with an anarchic distribution of mesenchymelike tissue infiltrating the cartilage and bone.
  • (17) Both Vardy schools certainly lie some distance from the underachieving, anarchic stereotype with which the government maligns the old comprehensive ideal.
  • (18) His dastardly plot involved cutting Gotham City off from the rest of the world and turning it into an anarchic hellhole.
  • (19) Users of the anarchic image-based messageboard have been blamed for coordinating numerous internet hoaxes and attacks.
  • (20) Fear is driving Obama’s latest rethink: fear that Russia and Iran are winning the strategic tug-of-war for decisive influence in both Syria and Iraq; and fear that his Middle East legacy will be an anarchic arc of muddle and mayhem stretching from Mosul to the Mediterranean.

Anarchy


Definition:

  • (n.) Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion.
  • (n.) Hence, confusion or disorder, in general.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He would have been knocking it all sideways.” Anarchy & Beauty: William Morris and his Legacy, 1860-1960 is at the National Portrait Gallery , London, 16 October – 11 January.
  • (2) Mugabe and his Zanu-PF thugs, terrified of losing their empire, unleashed a carefully targeted anarchy at anyone who showed the slightest sign of dissent.
  • (3) But even as soldiers were able to impose order there after several days of anarchy that saw armed Buddhists torch the city's Muslim quarters, unrest was reported in two other towns to the south.
  • (4) In that respect, everyone in court number one had already lived through 24-hour cycles of tension, violence, anarchy, horror, cleanup, clampdown, fightback, soul-searching and recrimination.
  • (5) It's telling, I think, because she's seen as a conservative, but there's a huge streak of anarchy that runs right through her."
  • (6) However, the bad memories - the bloody purges, the violent anarchy of the Cultural Revolution - are officially classified as "mistakes", committed when Mao was old and no longer in control of his evil courtiers.
  • (7) Photograph: Mark Townsend Moussa lives in the Camp Fleur district of Kaga-Bandoro, a town deep in the jungle of the CAR, which was tipped into anarchy when the Seleka rebels overthrew the government and seized power four months ago.
  • (8) ''Anarchy is the final consequence of overpopulation.''
  • (9) It’s that Britain has prime responsibility for the cause of the crisis, the anarchy in Iraq.
  • (10) It proceeded to sow anarchy across Afghanistan and Iraq and then attempted, after 2012, to destabilise President Assad in Syria.
  • (11) The Indian position has been that any attempt to reconcile with militants is doomed to failure and risks plunging Afghanistan into anarchy and fanaticism from which Pakistan stands to benefit.
  • (12) There was no warning about other political groups, but next to an image of the anarchist emblem, the City of Westminster police's "counter terrorist focus desk" called for anti-anarchist whistleblowers stating: "Anarchism is a political philosophy which considers the state undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, and instead promotes a stateless society, or anarchy.
  • (13) Maltings' seven cask ales include permanent Black Sheep, regular staples such as York Brewery's Guzzler and beers from newer, smaller breweries, such as Coxhoe's Sonnet 43 and Morpeth's Anarchy.
  • (14) Songs helped shape popular moods: Richard Thompson’s Blackleg Miner highlighted the plight of colliery workers, while Song of the Lower Classes by the chartist poet MP Ernest Jones drew on rousing works such as Shelley’s Mask of Anarchy .
  • (15) Then I got two handkerchiefs with the Anarchy cover printed on them, but I gave one to Sid Vicious because he said, "Those bastards won't give me one!"
  • (16) The behaviour of these protesters is illegal, extremely unreasonable and inhumane, and is even worse than that of radical social activists and almost complete anarchy,” the statement said.
  • (17) We watched as a million-and-a-half people staggered around having been released from a totalitarian nightmare into a world of complete anarchy.
  • (18) Jon Cruddas, Labour MP for Dagenham, who wants Labour to develop its own vision of a "big society" based on strong local institutions, said: "This reveals that the Tory approach to the big society is literally a recipe for chaos, bordering on anarchy."
  • (19) The anarchy and opportunism thus either became, on the political right, the final evidence of liberal "entitlement culture" gone wrong, or on the left a demonstration of how market economics and materialism had betrayed us.
  • (20) Back in London, McLaren was determined to start his own band and by 1976 was managing the Sex Pistols, the punk entity that revolutionised popular culture and introduced anarchy to the masses.