chaos
The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.
Other meanings
Any state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.
“to descend into chaos”
A behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.
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