chaos

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.
2. (uncountable, usually)Any state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.

   “to descend into chaos”

   “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”

3. (uncountable, usually)A behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.
4. (uncountable, usually)One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law.
5. (obsolete, uncountable, usually)A vast chasm or abyss.
6. (obsolete, rare, uncountable, usually)A 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.”

7. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of congenital high airway obstruction syndrome.
8. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, slang, uncountable)Initialism of can't have anyone over syndrome.

name

1. (Greek)In Greek mythology, the primordial state of disorder that exists before the creation of the world, or the first being or deity to exist.
2. A planetoid and cubewano orbiting in the Kuiper belt.
3. In the Warhammer franchise, a demonic antagonist that sends demons, monsters, warriors, and beasts to wage war on the games' setting.

   “Chaos warrior, Chaos daemon”