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Anocracy

Postby William A Hupy » Sat Nov 26, 2022 1:05 pm

The book I’m reading used this word to designate governments which are neither democracies or autocracies but somewhere in between. From anarchy, but not meaning absence of government, but absence of dominion…whatever that means. Any comments?

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Re: Anocracy

Postby Dr. Goodword » Mon Nov 28, 2022 11:23 am

This word is very new, appearing in no major dictionaries. It should mean "without power", an- no, without" + -cracy "power, governmenet". I can't find enough to work with.
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Re: Anocracy

Postby brogine » Tue Nov 29, 2022 12:38 pm

How about - as was the previous US administration -
‘government by a******s’?

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Re: Anocracy

Postby Slava » Tue Nov 29, 2022 5:26 pm

If I understand the *** correctly, would that be 'analocracy'? Rule by buttheads?

On a serious note, I'm thinking this might be 'an' 'ocracy,' or 'a' form of 'ocracy'. As in, "There's some form of power here, but it's rather amorphous, so we'll just call it anocracy."
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