Noun: chaos
| Singular | chaos |
| Plural | chaoses |
Sample Sentences
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to descend into chaos
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After the earthquake, the local hospital was in chaos
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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 [1977, Irwin Edman, Adam, the Baby, and the Man from Mars, page 54:]
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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. [1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Aire rectified. With a digression of the Aire.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 3, page 320:]
Nouns inflected like chaos
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂-der.
3. Ancient Greek χαῦνος (khaûnos)
4. Ancient Greek χάος (kháos)lbor.
5. English chaos
6. Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “vast chasm, void”). Doublet of gas, which was borrowed through Dutch. Displaced native Old English dwolma.
7. In Early Modern English, used in the sense of the original Greek word. In the meaning “primordial matter” from the 16th century. Figurative usage in the sense “confusion, disorder” from the 17th century. The technical sense in mathematics and science dates from the 1960s.
Verbs referencing "chaos"
German Nouns
Chaos.