chaoses
States of mayhem
Chaoses is the plural of chaos, used when referring to multiple distinct instances of complete disorder or confusion.
While chaos is often treated as uncountable—you can't have "two chaoses" of rush hour traffic—the plural appears when distinguishing separate realms or types: the chaoses of war and revolution, personal and professional chaoses colliding.
Violent disruptions or agitation
- upheavalsSudden, violent disruptions
- disruptionsInterruptions to normal activity
- confusionsStates of mental disorder
- mayhemViolent disorder and destruction
pandemonium · bedlam · anarchy · disarray · tumults · commotions · uproars · havoc
Organized sets of elements
- attractorsThings that draw others
- fractalsPatterns repeating at every scale
- butterfly effectSmall inputs, disproportionate results
- nonlinearNot in sequence
unpredictability · dynamics · deterministic · patterns · Lorenz · sensitivity · complexity · emergence
Emptinesses or nullifies
- abyssesImmeasurably deep openings
- formlessnessLacking definite shape
- creationMaking something exist
- cosmosOrderly totality of existence
genesis · origin · darkness · emptiness · beginnings · mythological · primeval · unformed
turmoils
Violent disruptions or agitation
- upheavalsSudden, violent disruptions
- disruptionsInterruptions to normal activity
- confusionsStates of mental disorder
mayhem · pandemonium · bedlam · anarchy · disarray · tumults · commotions · uproars · havoc · shambles
systems
Organized sets of elements
- attractorsThings that draw others
- fractalsPatterns repeating at every scale
- butterfly effectSmall inputs, disproportionate results
nonlinear · unpredictability · dynamics · deterministic · patterns · Lorenz · sensitivity · complexity · emergence · equations
voids
Emptinesses or nullifies
- abyssesImmeasurably deep openings
- formlessnessLacking definite shape
- creationMaking something exist
cosmos · genesis · origin · darkness · emptiness · beginnings · mythological · primeval · unformed · Gaia
chaosesorders
Instructions to obey
orderliness · systems · organizations · structures · arrangements
chaosesharmonies
Pleasing combined pitches
coherences · unities · concordances · balances · equilibriums
chaosescalms
Reduces agitation
peaces · tranquilities · serenities · stabilities · stillnesses
- controlled chaosDisorder serving deliberate purpose
- organized chaosApparent mess, underlying order
- chaos theoryStudy of sensitive dependence
- complete chaos
- total chaos
- order and chaosPattern and formlessness together