Chaos vs Darkness - What's the difference?
chaos | darkness |
(obsolete) A vast chasm or abyss.
The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony
Any state of disorder, any confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.
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(obsolete, rare) A given medium; a space in which something exists or lives; an environment.
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(mathematics) Behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.
(fantasy) One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law.
(lb) The state of being dark; lack of light.
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*1912 , (Willa Cather),
*:Over everything was darkness and thick silence, and the smell of dust and sunflowers.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness , but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
(lb) Gloom.
(lb) The product of being dark.
(lb) The state or quality of reflecting little light, of tending to a blackish or brownish color.
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(lb) Evilness, lack of understanding or compassion, reference to death or suffering.
As nouns the difference between chaos and darkness
is that chaos is while darkness is (lb) the state of being dark; lack of light.chaos
English
Noun
(en-noun)- 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?