pantisocracy

/ ˌpæntɪˈsɒkrəsɪ /

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of pantisocracy¹

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

Example Sentences

You and I have often talked of Southey’s and Coleridge’s pantisocracy—I believe the time has come for some such an enterprise. 

From Project Gutenberg

Is this Coleridge and Southey again with their Pantisocracy and Susquehanna Paradise?

From Project Gutenberg

He came, we must remember, half-way between the Pantisocracy of Coleridge and his friends and the still cruder vagaries of our young intellectuals.

From Project Gutenberg

It would take us too far to consider how the sentimental Pantisocracy of the youthful Lake Poets coincided with the direct influence of Rousseau.

From Project Gutenberg

This is as true of nutty little proposals by discontented geniuses--like the idea of communalist, rural "pantisocracy" put forward by Shelley, Coleridge and others in their youth--as it is of paranoid, pseudo-collectivist systems that take over whole societies and make huge contributions to the sum of human misery, like Stalinism.

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