Bedlam vs Disorder - What's the difference?
bedlam | disorder | Related terms |
A place or situation of chaotic uproar, and where confusion prevails.
* 1872 : , The Complete Works of John Bunyan , p 133
* 2002 : Mark L. Friedman, ''Everyday Crisis Management, p 134
(obsolete) An insane person; a lunatic; a madman.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A lunatic asylum; a madhouse.
* 1720 : , The works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson , p 43
Absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly manner.
A disturbance of civic peace or of public order.
(medicine) A physical or psychical malfunction.
Bedlam is a related term of disorder.
As nouns the difference between bedlam and disorder
is that bedlam is a place or situation of chaotic uproar, and where confusion prevails while disorder is absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly manner.bedlam
English
Noun
(en noun)- Some of the wards were veritable "bedlams ," and dis-charged patients have told of abuses practiced in them of which the mere recital causes a shudder.
- The outside of the Hyatt was bedlam . There was a group of more than a hundred injured people on the circular drive in front of the hotel.
- Let's get the bedlam to lead him.
- But if any man should profess to believe these things, and yet allow himself in any known wickedness, such a one should be put into bedlam.
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* * *disorder
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Alternative forms
* disordre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- After playing the children left the room in disorder .
- The class was thrown into disorder when the teacher left the room
- The army tried to prevent disorder when claims the elections had been rigged grew stronger.
- Bulimia is an eating disorder .
