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chaos
/ˈkeɪ.ɒs/
noun
The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.
Any state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.
"After the earthquake, the local hospital was in chaos"
A behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.
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