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Turmoil vs Bedlam - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between turmoil and bedlam

is that turmoil is a state of great disorder or uncertainty while bedlam is a place or situation of chaotic uproar, and where confusion prevails.

As a verb turmoil

is to be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.

turmoil

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A state of great disorder or uncertainty.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 19, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
    • , title=]http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18181971 England 1-0 Ukraine] , passage=Oleg Blokhin's side lost the talismanic Andriy Shevchenko to the substitutes' bench because of a knee injury but still showed enough to put England through real turmoil in spells.}}
  • Harassing labour; trouble; disturbance.
  • * Shakespeare
    • And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil , / A blessed soul doth in Elysium.
  • *, chapter=7
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.}}

    Synonyms

    * chaos, disorder

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.
    • (Milton)
  • (obsolete) To harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry.
  • * Spenser
    • It is her fatal misfortune to be miserably tossed and turmoiled with these storms of affliction.

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    bedlam

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A place or situation of chaotic uproar, and where confusion prevails.
  • * 1872 : , The Complete Works of John Bunyan , p 133
    • 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.
  • * 2002 : Mark L. Friedman, ''Everyday Crisis Management, p 134
    • 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.
  • (obsolete) An insane person; a lunatic; a madman.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Let's get the bedlam to lead him.
  • (obsolete) A lunatic asylum; a madhouse.
  • * 1720 : , The works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson , p 43
    • 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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