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Frenzy vs Chaos - What's the difference?

frenzy | chaos |

In obsolete terms the difference between frenzy and chaos

is that frenzy is mad; frantic while chaos is a vast chasm or abyss.

As an adjective frenzy

is mad; frantic.

As a verb frenzy

is to render frantic.

frenzy

English

Alternative forms

* phrenzy, phrensy (obsolete)

Noun

(frenzies)
  • A state of wild activity or panic.
  • She went into a cleaning frenzy to prepare for the unexpected guests.
  • A violent agitation of the mind approaching madness; rage.
  • * Addison
  • All else is towering frenzy and distraction.
  • * William Shakespeare, ''A midsummer Night's Dream, Act 5, scene 1:
  • The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling.

    Derived terms

    * feeding frenzy

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Mad; frantic.
  • * 1678 John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress :
  • They thought that some frenzy distemper had got into his head.

    Verb

  • (uncommon) To render frantic.
  • chaos

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (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.
  • *
  • (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?
  • (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.
  • Synonyms

    * See

    Antonyms

    * (classical cosmogony) cosmos * (state of disorder) order

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from chaos) * chaos theory * chaotic * controlled chaos

    See also

    * entropy * discord * capricious ----