Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A realm or dominion which includes the universe.
Wiktionary
- n. The individual's right to choose any form of government without being forced to move from their current locale.
- n. systems theory Dynamic symmetry across multiple scales.
- n. diplomacy An inclusive, multilateral system in which all parties may participate meaningfully.
- n. anarchism, rare Rule by all; a system of governance in which each person has absolute power.
- n. rare Rule of all; absolute or total rule.
- n. poetic, rare An all-encompassing realm.
Etymologies
- From pan- + -archy. Coined independently in many different contexts. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Resilience research is grounded in what futurists call panarchy theory.”
The Huffington Post: Marilyn Schlitz: Embracing Our Creative Imagination To Solve The Global Crisis
“I was rushing to get a comment up because I could see no one had come across the idea of panarchy before.”
Exit, Voice, and Freedom: An Example, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“It opens with Buzz Holling (who NRE 580 alumnus will remember for panarchy theory) on adaptation, uncertainy, adeterminism, non-equilibrium, and such like in the general world.”
hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Absolute Joy in Domains of True Uncertainty
“If government ever becomes the panarchy-the bureaucratic instrument of the people-that I imagine, we may come to regard governmental positions as being just more jobs we humans don't want to do.”
“The panarchy idea is one that has immense draw for me and allows us to include anarcho-communists or religious anarchists in our ranks.”
“Extraterritorial government is known generally as panarchy.”
Exit, Voice, and Freedom: An Example, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“There are several links to other panarchy sites on the links page.”
Exit, Voice, and Freedom: An Example, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“In my example of a panarchy in my hometown, I do not see the separate governments completely divorced from one another, but cooperating on those things that they agree on perhaps a single police force and court system while going their own way on other things such as the schools.”
Exit, Voice, and Freedom: An Example, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“We may be able to change the constitution/nature of the polity or the government, but a political community is not a voluntary association, and one's obligations out of justice, both to the political community in which one is born and raised and to one's fellow citizens, prevent one from endorsing panarchy.”
“Paul B. Hartzog has just launched a fundraiser on fundable. org to raise money for panarchy. com.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘panarchy’.
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pabouche, pabulous, pabulum, pacable, pace, pachydermia, pachyglossal, pachymeter, pachynsis, paciferous, pacificate, pactolian and 1766 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Interesting
iridescent, luminescent, gossamer, blithe, illusory, halo, cygnet, covet, bloody, iris, pruinose, limerence and 15 more...
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Random
These are just some random words that I might find a list for someday.
troglodytism, chinkle, vasculum, sabz, cucullus, tricornigerous, cuboctahedron, eruca, gamp, pilum, taha, angelhood and 252 more...
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list-ocracy
and some -archy ones, too.
technocracy, plutocracy, ochlocracy, theocracy, kakistocracy, stratocracy, democracy, autocracy, aristocracy, pantisocracy, timocracy, bureaucracy and 30 more...
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The Thinking Sage's Lexicon
Words of numinous beauty.
besaged, marginalia, voluptuary, sagacious, eudaemonia, kismet, optifex, artifex, jivan, egregore, chandry, creatrix and 29 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for panarchy.

hernesheir Tanarchy - social system among the fair-skinned wherein elevated status is conveyed by the deepness and percentage of body coverage of sun-browned skin. Artificial means of tanning are deemed "fake" and are to be ridiculed and treated with measured but tangible prejudice. Aug 26, 2009
hernesheir Manarchy: Odious system where everything is ruled by men. I hope my female supervisor reads this - she'd be proud and just maybe argue that I deserve a raise. I'm just sayin'. Aug 26, 2009
thinkingsage Panarchy is a heterarchy rather than a hierarchy. More precisely it is both; it is a holarchy. Aug 26, 2009
herotuesday Rule by all. Sep 25, 2007