Anarchy and Violence

Anarchy

Anarchy noun - A state in which there is widespread wrongdoing and disregard for rules and authority.

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Violence and anarchy are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Violence" instead a noun "Anarchy".

Violence noun - The use of brute strength to cause harm to a person or property.

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Anarchy and violence are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Anarchy" instead a noun "Violence".

Nearby Words: violent, violently

high	high anarchy	high violence
unrestrained	unrestrained anarchy	unrestrained violence
mass	mass anarchy	mass violence
original	original anarchy	original violence
Other adjectives: sheer, heavy, real, rampant, little, immediate, general, political, bloody, less, mindless, revolutionary, resulting, sadistic.

All the others, without anything to control them, quickly fall into anarchy and violence.

Source: The Anti-Nihilist
They let the city deteriorate into anarchy and violence, for the express purpose of allowing them to establish total control over the populace.

Source: The Bad Guy Wins / Video Games
The Larry Niven story Cloak of Anarchy posits "anarchy parks" with just one rule: no violence (making them the anarcho-pacifist sort of anarchy).

Source: Anarchy Is Chaos

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