chaoses
- 1Plural of chaos.
The novel weaves together the overlapping chaoses of war, famine, and exile.
She compared the chaoses of two collapsing empires in her thesis.
Note
An uncommon plural, because nearly every meaning of chaos is usually a mass noun: general disorder, the formless matter of ancient cosmogony, the behavior of non-linear systems. The plural appears only when separate states of disorder are being counted or compared, such as the disorders of two different wars or two different empires. Where it sounds strained, kinds of chaos or states of chaos does the same work.
chaoses is a form of chaos
chaos, noun: A state of complete disorder or confusion; a jumbled mixture with no clear arrangement. Full entry
- Forms
- chaoschaoses plural
- Spelling
- chaos → chaoses: add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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