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chaos

chaos

14 7.7
A formless empty state before the world began
  • noun
  • /ˈkeɪɑs/
  • Literature
translation icon : caos
  • The ancient texts describe the state of chaos that prevailed before the gods brought order to the cosmos.
  • order out of chaos

So I mean, if you take all of if you want to go back to the initial part of our existence, you know, it came from came from chaos.

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Examples

  • Myths turn chaos into cosmos and confirm that cosmos as good.

    Academic text (2017)
  • - For decades, I wandered through the realms of chaos, looking for my only love.

  • I am the soul of chaos who gives life and takes life.

  • Someone once told me that before the chaos, people could do this in their sleep.

  • For life is, at the start, a chaos in which one is lost.

    Blog text (16)
  • I discovered that without the chaos, no creation can be possible.

    Academic text (2014)
  • At first, there was only chaos: An entire world in denial of what was coming.

  • The age of chaos begins anew.

  • Linnaeus regarded himself as anointed by God to bring order to the chaos of creation.

    Academic text (2006)
  • IN THE BEGINNING, THERE WAS CHAOS AND ETERNAL NIGHT.

Antonyms

1.0

The arrangement of things in a neat sequence

Idioms

8.4

A situation with things all over and people confused

Compounds

corporate chaos
  • Literature
6.8

A state of confusion and disorder in a company because of bad management or a crisis

Surface Forms

chaos singular
chaoses plural

Etymology

Chaos in Greek stories meant the formless 'gap' or empty space before the world began. That's why poets and myths use chaos for the great emptiness or disorder that comes before creation.