Bedlam vs Hubbub - What's the difference?
bedlam | hubbub | 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
A confused uproar, commotion, tumult or racket.
* John Milton, Paradise Lost
Bedlam is a related term of hubbub.
As nouns the difference between bedlam and hubbub
is that bedlam is a place or situation of chaotic uproar, and where confusion prevails while hubbub is a confused uproar, commotion, tumult or racket.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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* * *hubbub
English
Alternative forms
* whobub (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- At length a universal hubbub wild
- Of stunning sounds and voices all confused,
- Borne through the hollow dark, assaults his ear
- With loudest vehemence.