chaos

About 9.31 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.
2. noun Any state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.

   to descend into chaos

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

Similar words

bedlam topsy-turvyness topsy-turvydom pandemonium mayhem disarray mix-up disorder mess snafu

Often followed by

of and in that theory is to which or

Word family

Chaos chaoses