Snafu vs Chaos - What's the difference?
snafu | chaos |
(military, slang, euphemism) (gloss)
A ridiculously chaotic situation.
A major glitch or breakdown.
* 2007, Susan Glairon, Paperwork SNAFU , The Daily Times-Call, LongmontFYI
(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 snafu and chaos
is that snafu is while chaos is .As an acronym snafu
is .snafu
English
(wikipedia SNAFU)Alternative forms
* snafuAcronym
(Acronym) (head)Noun
(en noun)- Because of a paperwork snafu , he also hasn’t been able to get his Army discharge papers and is still listed as an active-duty soldier…
See also
* Article on a military training cartoon character: ).Anagrams
*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?