The opposite of the word

[Bartmanhomer]

What is the opposite of anarchy? I know it's a lame question.

 

[EricNoah]

Entry Word: anarchy
Function: noun
Text: a state in which there is widespread wrongdoing and disregard for rules and authority <the anarchy that the country experienced after the dictator drained the treasury and fled the country>
Synonyms lawlessness, misrule
Related Words commotion, tumult, uproar; chaos, confusion, disarray, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization; disruption, disturbance, havoc, riot, strife, turbulence, turmoil, unrest, upheaval; mutiny, rebellion, revolution, uprising; criminality, outlawry
Near Antonyms law, lawfulness, legality, legitimacy, rule; calmness, harmony, order, orderliness, peace, peacefulness, quiet, tranquillity (or tranquility)

 

[reveal]

Entry Word: anarchy
Function: noun
Text: a state in which there is widespread wrongdoing and disregard for rules and authority <the anarchy that the country experienced after the dictator drained the treasury and fled the country>
Synonyms lawlessness, misrule
Related Words commotion, tumult, uproar; chaos, confusion, disarray, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization; disruption, disturbance, havoc, riot, strife, turbulence, turmoil, unrest, upheaval; mutiny, rebellion, revolution, uprising; criminality, outlawry
Near Antonyms law, lawfulness, legality, legitimacy, rule; calmness, harmony, order, orderliness, peace, peacefulness, quiet, tranquillity (or tranquility)

<Copy Guy voice>

Look at Mr. Noah.

The walking dictionary.

Thesaurus-o-rama.

Noah Webster indeed.

</Copy Guy voice>

 

[Psionicist]

I'd say authority/authoritism/authoritarian

Or wait, no. Because the opposite of above would probably be libertarian. There have to be some more extreme form. Dictatorian?

 

[tarchon]

archy

 

[ThirdWizard]

Or wait, no. Because the opposite of above would probably be libertarian. There have to be some more extreme form. Dictatorian?

Totalitarianism?

Without going too deep into politics...

Perhaps utopian communism. In anarchy everyone uses their own rules for themselves. In communism everyone uses "community rules" for the betterment of society.

 

[Psionicist]

Totalitarianism?

Without going too deep into politics...

Perhaps utopian communism. In anarchy everyone uses their own rules for themselves. In communism everyone uses "community rules" for the betterment of society.

Ah, totalitarianism, must be it. Good find!

 

[RangerWickett]

I knew a girl named Melissa, who spelled her name "Mulysa." She was a goth.

Try reading it backward.

 

[Kelleris]

How about synchronicity?

Anarchy is a bunch of things happening randomly for no reason, synchronicity is a bunch of things happening that are intimately connected, even if it doesn't look like it.

Now, are we talking anarchy like Limbo, or anarchy like a bunch of CN characters barhopping? Metaphysical or political or adjectival anarchy?

 

[Vigwyn the Unruly]

I knew a girl named Melissa, who spelled her name "Mulysa." She was a goth.

Try reading it backward.

I must be really slow, because I just don't get this.