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Pandemonium vs Caterwauling - What's the difference?

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Pandemonium is a related term of caterwauling.


As nouns the difference between pandemonium and caterwauling

is that pandemonium is the imaginary capital of hell (often with a capital letter) while caterwauling is a sound that caterwauls.

As a verb caterwauling is

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pandemonium

English

Alternative forms

* pandaemonium *

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (archaic) A place where all demons live; Hell.
  • * 1674 — , Book I
    • And Trumpets sound throughout the Host proclaim
    A solemn Councel forthwith to be held
    At Pandæmonium , the high Capitol
    Of Satan and his Peers.
  • Chaos; tumultuous or lawless violence.
  • * 2004 , Boston Globe , October 22
    • Whenever you have violent pandemonium , there's the overwhelming possibility for panic and tragedy.
  • An outburst; loud, riotous uproar, especially of a crowd.

    • Synonyms

    * (tumultuous or lawless violence): chaos * (an outburst): outburst, uproar

    Related terms

    * pandemoniac

    caterwauling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sound that caterwauls.
  • * Eleanor H. Porter, Oh, Money! Money!
    • Now, I like a good tune what is a tune; but them caterwaulings and dirges that that chap Gray plays on that fiddle of his—gorry, Mr. Smith, I'd rather hear the old barn door at home squeak any day.