Maelstrom vs Chaos - What's the difference?
maelstrom | chaos |
A large and violent whirlpool.
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Any violent or turbulent situation.
(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.
As nouns the difference between maelstrom and chaos
is that maelstrom is maelstrom while chaos is .maelstrom
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*Noun
(en noun)- A hulking shape burst through the doorway and hurtled down the corridor, leaving a maelstrom of air currents in his wake.
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chaos
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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?