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Turmoil vs Pandemonium - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between turmoil and pandemonium

is that turmoil is a state of great disorder or uncertainty while pandemonium is a place where all demons live; Hell.

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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    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