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Anarchy is a term that has a number different, but often related, usages:

  1. Anarchy can mean a society based on the principles of one or more strain(s) of the political theory anarchism.
  2. Critics of anarchism, and others not intending to criticise or confuse, sometimes use the term to describe what might more accurately be called chaos or anomie.
  3. The Anarchy is the name most often given to the period of civil war and unsettled government which occurred in England during the reign of King Stephen I.