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Definition of Anomy
1. Noun. Personal state of isolation and anxiety resulting from a lack of social control and regulation.
2. Noun. Lack of moral standards in a society.
Definition of Anomy
1. n. Disregard or violation of law.
Definition of Anomy
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of anomie) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Anomy
1. anomie [n -MIES] - See also: anomie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anomy
Literary usage of Anomy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study by Jean-Marie Guyau (1897)
"Religious anomy and the substitution of doubt for faith—I. Will the absence of
religion result in scepticism ? Will the number of sceptics increase with the ..."
2. The Grammar of Science by Karl Pearson (1900)
"If this be so, then obviously the odds are seven to one against a routine- order
occurring even three times without a single anomy, and are overwhelming ..."
3. Speculum theologiae in Christo: or, A view of some divine truths, which are by Edward Polhill (1678)
"... of the anomy or ataxy, it is not from him as a ... The anomy or ... the entity
and the anomy, the entity or motion mufi be from God the ..."
4. Lean's Collectanea by Vincent Stuckey Lean, Julia Lucy Woodward (1903)
"Secondly . . . the Form of Sin which is an anomy or transgression.—Ib., p. 1156.
AVILE, v. To vilify. The world traduced him for a blasphemer, a Samaritan, ..."
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