How to say "anarchy" in Japanese

• アナーキーCommon
  noun, na-adjectiveThe katakana loanword, used for anarchy as an abstract concept or idea — the absence of authority, or a state of disorder — with the Western flavor typical of loanwords.
• 無政府むせいふCommon
  nounThe Sino-Japanese term, literally 'no government'; it names the condition of a country or society left without any governing authority. This is the word for anarchy as a political or historical state of affairs.

Choose 「アナーキー」 for anarchy as a borrowed, Western-flavored concept or sense of disorder, and 無政府 for the literal condition of a country or society left with no government at all.

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• アナーキーanarchy
• 無政府むせいふanarchy
• 乱麻らんまanarchy
• 無政府状態むせいふじょうたいanarchy
• 無警察むけいさつ(the state of) anarchy