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Autocracy vs Anocracy - What's the difference?

autocracy | anocracy |

As nouns the difference between autocracy and anocracy

is that autocracy is a form of government in which unlimited power is held by a single individual while anocracy is a political system which is neither fully democratic nor fully autocratic, often being vulnerable to political instability.

autocracy

English

(wikipedia autocracy)

Noun

(autocracies)
  • A form of government in which unlimited power is held by a single individual.

    • Synonyms

    * bigmanism * despotism * dictatorship * monarchy * tyranny

    Related terms

    * autocrat * autocratic * autocratically

    Hypernyms

    * totalitarianism

    anocracy

    English

    (wikipedia anocracy)

    Noun

    (anocracies)
  • A political system which is neither fully democratic nor fully autocratic, often being vulnerable to political instability.
  • *2011 , (Steven Pinker), The Better Angels of Our Nature , Penguin 2012, p. 374:
  • *:As the number of autocracies in the world began to decline in the late 1980s, the number of anocracies began to increase.