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chaos

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Source Word

chaos

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈkeɪ.ɒs/

uncountable usually obsolete rare

Japanese Meaning

無秩序な状態、混沌とした秩序のない状態。 / 乱雑で、一見まとまりのない状態。

What is this buttons?

Ancient cosmogonies often describe the universe as born from chaos, an unordered, pre-cosmic state of matter.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

古代の宇宙生成神話はしばしば、宇宙が原初の混沌、つまり秩序を持たない宇宙成立以前の物質の状態から生まれたと描写する。

Sense（1）

The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.

Sense（2）

Any state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.

to descend into chaos

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（3）

(mathematics) A behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.

Sense（4）

(fantasy) One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law.

Sense（5）

(obsolete) A vast chasm or abyss.

Sense（6）

(obsolete, rare) A given medium; a space in which something exists or lives; an environment.

, II.ii.3:

What is the centre of the earth? is it pure element only, as Aristotle decrees, inhabited (as Paracelsus thinks) with creatures whose chaos is the earth: or with fairies, as the woods and waters (according to him) are with nymphs, or as the air with spirits?

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

chaoses

（ plural ）

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