chaos

The definition of chaos refers to lack of order or lack of intentional design.

(noun)

An example of chaos is an extremely messy room with papers piled everywhere.

See chaos in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

the disorder of formless matter and infinite space, supposed to have existed before the ordered universe
extreme confusion or disorder
Archaic an abyss; chasm
☆ Math. a pattern or state of order existing within apparent disorder, as in the irregularities of a coastline or a snowflake

Origin: L < Gr chaos, space, chaos (sense ) < IE base *ĝheu-, *ĝhei-, to gape: see yawn

See chaos in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A condition or place of great disorder or confusion.
A disorderly mass; a jumble: The desk was a chaos of papers and unopened letters.
often Chaos The disordered state of unformed matter and infinite space supposed in some cosmogonic views to have existed before the ordered universe.
Mathematics A dynamical system that has a sensitive dependence on its initial conditions.
Obsolete An abyss; a chasm.

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Origin: Middle English, formless primordial space

Origin: , from Latin

Origin: , from Greek khaos

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