Welter vs Chaos - What's the difference?
welter | chaos |
general confusion; disorderly mixture; aimless effort; as, a welter of papers and magazines
to roll; to wallow
(intransitive, sometimes, figurative) to be soaked or steeped in.
* Latimer
* Spenser
* Landor
To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows.
* Milton
* Wordsworth
* Trench
Of horsemen, heavyweight; as, a welter race.
To wither; to wilt.
* I. Taylor
(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.
*, II.ii.3:
(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 welter and chaos
is that welter is general confusion; disorderly mixture; aimless effort; as, a welter of papers and magazines while chaos is a vast chasm or abyss.As a verb welter
is to roll; to wallow.As an adjective welter
is of horsemen, heavyweight; as, a welter race.welter
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl). Cognates include (etyl) (m) ((etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- When we welter in pleasures and idleness, then we eat and drink with drunkards.
- These wizards welter in wealth's waves.
- the priests at the altar weltering in their blood
- the weltering waves
- waves that, hardly weltering , die away
- through this blindly weltering sea
Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
Adjective
Derived terms
* welter-weightEtymology 3
Compare wilt (intransitive verb).Verb
(en verb)- Weltered hearts and blighted memories.
chaos
English
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?
