chaos

Etymology
Borrowed from. , which was borrowed through Dutch.

In Early Modern English, used in the sense of the original Greek word. In the meaning "primordial matter" from the 16th century. Figurative usage in the sense "confusion, disorder" from the 17th century. The technical sense in mathematics and science dates from the 1960s.

Noun

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

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:disorder

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: χάος
 * Hebrew:
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: ха́ос
 * Old English: dwolma
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: dimayaw


 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: فَوْضَى
 * Hijazi Arabic: لخبطة, حوسة, خربطة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: hərc-mərclik
 * Belarusian: хао́с, ха́ас
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: kaos
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: ĥaoso, kaoso
 * Estonian: kaos,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:, , . ,
 * Alemannic German: Chrüsimüsi
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: ταραχή
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: chaos
 * Irish: anord
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , ,
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Lao:
 * Latvian: haoss
 * Lithuanian: chaosas
 * Macedonian: ха́ос, безре́дие
 * Malay: huru hara
 * Maori: kaumingomingo, aneatanga
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: эмх замбараагүй байдал
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English: dwolma
 * Ottoman Turkish: قارش
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Wirwoa
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: caos
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: хаос, каос
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovene: kaos
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kesheshe
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: dimayaw, kaguluhan
 * Thai:, , ความสับสนวุ่นวาย
 * Tibetan:
 * Ukrainian: хао́с
 * Vietnamese: (混亂)


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: ха́ос
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: dimayaw
 * Thai: ความอลวน,, ความไร้ระเบียบ

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  disorder
 * 2)  primordial disorder

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) * 1875, Josef Durdík, Všeobecná aesthetika.:
 * Ano i když pomíjíme všechny všednější odstíny smyslu, básníci velebí řád, myslíce si při tom na protivu jeho, chaos, a vědouce, že ve všem co se líbí, musí být jistý řád; a na druhé straně mají právě zas řád za průjev nesvobody [...]
 * 1) * 1875, Josef Durdík, Všeobecná aesthetika.:
 * Ano i když pomíjíme všechny všednější odstíny smyslu, básníci velebí řád, myslíce si při tom na protivu jeho, chaos, a vědouce, že ve všem co se líbí, musí být jistý řád; a na druhé straně mají právě zas řád za průjev nesvobody [...]

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  disorder
 * 2)  primordial disorder
 * 1)  primordial disorder

Etymology
, from.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
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