Chaos

Quick meaning: Chaos is a noun meaning The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.

Meaning

The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.

More Meanings

1. Any state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.
2. (fantasy) One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law.
3. (mathematics) A behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.
4. (obsolete) A vast chasm or abyss.
5. (obsolete, rare) A given medium; a space in which something exists or lives; an environment.

Example Sentences

to descend into chaos

After the earthquake, the local hospital was in chaos

or out of these chaoses order may be made, out of this ferment a clear wine of life. There are chaoses that have gone too far for retrieval

What is in the centre of the earth, or is it pure element only, as Ariſtotle decrees inhabited as Paracelſus thinks with creatures, whoſe Chaos is the earth with Fairies, as the woods and waters according to him, are with Nymphes or as the ayre with ſpirits.

Word Forms

• chaoses

Synonyms for chaos

Depending on context, synonyms include disorder, pandemonium, topsy-turvydom, topsy-turvyness, bedlam.

Antonyms for chaos

Common opposites include cosmos, order.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bedlam, topsy-turvyness, topsy-turvydom, pandemonium, mayhem, disarray.

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