Usually means: Mismanagement or disorder in governance.
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  1. dysnomy: Wordnik
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  5. dysnomy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. dysnomy: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  7. Dysnomy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. dysnomy: FreeDictionary.org
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▸ noun:  Bad legislation; the enactment of bad laws.

Similar:
misgovernment, malgovernment, misrule, misgovernance, malarrangement, maldistribution, misdevelopment, misordination, malapplication, underenforcement, more...

Opposite:
eunomy, orderliness, harmony, peace

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Similar:
misgovernment, malgovernment, misrule, misgovernance, malarrangement, maldistribution, misdevelopment, misordination, malapplication, underenforcement, more...

Opposite:
eunomy, orderliness, harmony, peace



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