chaos, chaotic

(Greek > Latin: formless matter; especially from Greek, gulf, chasm, abyss, the rude unformed mass; and by extension, "confusion and disorder")

chaodical
Pertaining to, or of the nature of, chaos.
chaogenous
Chaos-born; generated in chaos.
chaoize, chaoized
To reduce to chaos or utter confusion, to make chaotic.
chaology
The history or description of the chaos.
chaomancy
Divination, or presages, by observing and interpreting confusion or disorder; observed in clouds, airborne apparitions, aerial visions, or comets.
Chaos
1. The "formless void" of primordial matter, the "great deep" or "abyss" out of which the cosmos or order of the universe was evolved.
2. The disordered state of unformed matter and infinite space supposed in some cosmogonic views to have existed before the ordered universe.
chaos (s) (noun) (no plural)
A situation resembling that of utter confusion and disorder, a conglomeration of parts or elements without proper arrangement: Janet's friend has a kitchen which is a chaos of scattered food containers, dirty dishes, and trash.
A condition of utter confusion and disorder.
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An argument about politics often results in chaos.
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chaotheistic (adjective)
That which relates to chaos, crude matter, or the primordial (existed from the beginning) unformed matter with God.
chaotic (adjective), more chaotic, most chaotic
1. Pertaining to an unordered, unpredictable, and perplexing situation: Every few weeks, Mrs. Smith asked her students in the fifth grade to clean up the inside of their desks, which were in a chaotic condition with a disarray and turmoil of pencils, notebooks, textbooks, old lunch wrappers, etc.
2. Descriptive of being in a state of complete confusion and lack of organization: Janet had a chaotic mass of books and papers in her living room.
Relating to a great disorder or in a state of turmoil.
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chaotically
In a chaotic manner.
chaoticness
Chaotic quality.
rechaos
To reduce to chaos again.