pantisocracy

noun

a community, social group, etc, in which all have rule and everyone is equal

Word Origin for pantisocracy

C18 (coined by Robert Southey): from Greek, from panto- + isos equal + -cracy

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Examples from the Web for pantisocracy

Historical Examples of pantisocracy

Pantisocracy was indeed a happy episode for English literature.
Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle
H. N. Brailsford
The ideal is equality, and all society should be what Coleridge called a Pantisocracy.
Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle
H. N. Brailsford
Pantisocracy is relinquished; but he is engaged to be married.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 425, March, 1851
Various
Southey lost faith in Pantisocracy and went to live with his mother.
Coleridge
Samuel Levy Bensusan
In early manhood Coleridge planned a Pantisocracy where all the virtues were to thrive.
Obiter Dicta
Augustine Birrell

Word Origin and History for pantisocracy

"ideal Utopian community in which all have equal rights," 1794, literally "equal rule of all," from Greek pant-, comb. form of pantos, genitive of pan "all" (see pan-) + isocratia "equality of power" (see isocracy).