different between chaos vs disorganization

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (kháos, “vast chasm, void”).

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ke?.?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ke?.?s/
• Rhymes: -e??s

Noun

chaos (usually uncountable, plural chaoses)

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

     What is the centre of the earth? is it pure element only, as Aristotle decrees, inhabited (as Paracelsus thinks) with creatures whose chaos is the earth: or with fairies, as the woods and waters (according to him) are with nymphs, or as the air with spirits?

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:disorder

Antonyms

• (classical cosmogony): cosmos
• (state of disorder): order

Derived terms

Related terms

• chaotropic
• chaotropism

Translations

See also

• entropy
• discord
• capricious

Anagrams

• Socha, oshac

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch chaos, from Middle Dutch caos, from Latin chaos, from Ancient Greek ???? (kháos).

Noun

chaos (uncountable)

1. chaos (disorder)
2. (cosmogony) primordial disorder

Czech

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (kháos, “vast chasm, void”).

Noun

chaos m

1. chaos

Declension

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch caos, from Latin chaos, from Ancient Greek ???? (kháos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xa?.?s/
• Hyphenation: cha?os

Noun

chaos m (uncountable)

1. chaos (disorder)

   Synonyms: baaierd, rommel, wanorde, warboel

2. (cosmogony) primordial disorder

Antonyms

• netheid
• orde

Derived terms

• chaostheoretisch
• chaostheorie
• chaotisch

Descendants

• Afrikaans: chaos
• ? West Frisian: gaos
• ? Indonesian: kaos

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin chaos, from Ancient Greek ???? (kháos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.o/
• Rhymes: -o

Noun

chaos m (uncountable)

1. chaos

Further reading

• “chaos” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (kháos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?k?a.os/, [?k?ä?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ka.os/, [?k???s]

Noun

chaos n sg (genitive cha?); second declension

1. Alternative letter-case form of Chaos

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type), singular only.

References

• chaos in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• chaos in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• chaos in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• chaos in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Polish

Etymology

From Latin chaos, from Ancient Greek ???? (kháos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xa.?s/

Noun

chaos m inan

1. chaos

Declension

Derived terms

• chaotyczny

Further reading

• chaos in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Alternative forms

• disorganisation (British)

Etymology

From French désorganiser. Equivalent to dis- +? organization

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /d??so????na??ze???n/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s???(?).??n?a??ze?.??n/

Noun

disorganization (countable and uncountable, plural disorganizations)

1. The act of disorganizing; destruction of system.
2. The state of being disorganized

Translations