different between statist vs anarchist

English

Etymology

state +? -ist

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ste?t?st/

Noun

statist (plural statists)

1. (archaic) A skilled politician or one with political power, knowledge or influence. [from 16th c.]
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:

     Statists and Politicians, unto whom Ragione di Stato is the first Considerable, as though it were their business to deceive the people, as a Maxim, do hold, that truth is to be concealed from them [...].

2. (dated) A statistician. [from 19th c.]
3. A supporter of statism. [from 20th c.]

Translations

Adjective

statist (comparative more statist, superlative most statist)

1. Pertaining to statism.
   • 2008, Bradley Simpson, Economists with Guns, page 26:

     By the early 1950s, however, the rising expectations for economic growth in the developing world were being dashed by the failure of foreign investment to materialize and by the declining terms of trade in these same raw materials, increasing the appeal of statist solutions.

Translations

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

statist m (definite singular statisten, indefinite plural statister, definite plural statistene)

1. supernumerary, walk-on, extra (background actor)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

statist m (definite singular statisten, indefinite plural statistar, definite plural statistane)

1. an extra (person without a speaking part appearing in a film or play)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English statist.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /st?tist/

Noun

stàtist m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. an extra (person without a speaking part appearing in a film or play)

Declension

References

• “statist” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Swedish

Noun

statist c

1. supernumerary, walk-on, extra (background actor)

English

Etymology

From French anarchiste, from Ancient Greek ??????? (anarkhía) from the roots ??- (an-, “without”) + ???? (arkh?, “rule”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æn.?.k?st/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æn.??.k?st/

Noun

anarchist (plural anarchists)

1. One who believes in or advocates the absence of hierarchy and authority in most forms (compare anarchism), especially one who works toward the realization of such.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

2. One who disregards laws and social norms as a form of rebellion against authority.
3. (by extension) One who promotes chaos and lawlessness.

   Synonym: nihilist
4. One who resents outside control or influence on his or her life, in particular a government, and therefore desires the absence of political control.

Usage notes

• Self-identified anarchists in sense 1 may object to the use of this term in senses 2 and 3.

Related terms

• anarchy
• anarch
• anarcho-

Translations

See also

• libertarian

Adjective

anarchist (comparative more anarchist, superlative most anarchist)

1. (somewhat rare) Relating to anarchism or to anarchists, anarchistic.

Anagrams

• Thracians, antiarchs, anticrash, cantharis

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French anarchiste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.n?r?x?st/
• Hyphenation: an?ar?chist
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

anarchist m (plural anarchisten, diminutive anarchistje n)

1. anarchist [from late 18th c.]

Descendants

• Afrikaans: anargis
• ? Indonesian: anarkis