chaos

plural chaoses

1. uncountableusuallyThe unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.
2. uncountableusuallyAny state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.

   to descend into chaos

   2 more examples

   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

   1977, Irwin Edman, Adam, the Baby, and the Man from Mars, page 54

3. uncountableusuallymathematicsA behavior of iterative nonlinear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.
4. uncountableusuallyfantasyOne of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law.
5. obsoleteuncountableusuallyA vast chasm or abyss.
6. obsoleterareuncountableusuallyA given medium; a space in which something exists or lives; an environment.

   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.

   1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Aire rectified. With a digression of the Aire.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 3, page 320

1. Greekhuman sciencesIn Greek mythology, the primordial state of disorder that exists before the creation of the world, or the first being or deity to exist.
2. astronomyA planetoid and cubewano orbiting in the Kuiper belt.

   Synonyms: 19521 Chaos

3. fantasyIn the Warhammer franchise, a demonic antagonist that sends demons, monsters, warriors, and beasts to wage war on the games' setting.

   Chaos warrior, Chaos daemon

1. abbreviationinitialismuncountableInitialism of congenital high airway obstruction syndrome.
2. abbreviationinitialismslanguncountableInitialism of can't have anyone over syndrome.