Chaos vs. Confusion — What's the Difference?

Complete disorder and confusion

In medicine, confusion is the quality or state of being bewildered or unclear. The term "acute mental confusion" is often used interchangeably with delirium in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems and the Medical Subject Headings publications to describe the pathology.

A condition or place of great disorder or confusion.

The act of confusing or the state of being confused

A disorderly mass; a jumble

An instance of being confused

Often Chaos The disordered state of unformed matter and infinite space supposed in some cosmogonic views to have existed before the ordered universe.

(Psychology) A mental state involving impaired orientation with respect to time, place, or person.

Chaos theory.

A lack of clarity or order.

(Mathematics) A dynamical system that has a sensitive dependence on its initial conditions.

The state of being confused; misunderstanding.

(Obsolete) An abyss; a chasm.

The act of mistaking one thing for another or conflating distinct things.

The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.

Lack of understanding due to dementia.

Any state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.

(archaic) A state of shame or embarrassment.

(mathematics) A behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.

The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult.

(fantasy) One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law.

The state of being abashed or disconcerted; loss self-possession; perturbation; shame.

(obsolete) A vast chasm or abyss.

Overthrow; defeat; ruin.

A given medium; a space in which something exists or lives; an environment.

One who confuses; a confounder.

An empty, immeasurable space; a yawning chasm.

Disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably;

The confused, unorganized condition or mass of matter before the creation of distinct and orderly forms.

A mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior;

Any confused or disordered collection or state of things; a confused mixture; confusion; disorder.

A feeling of embarrassment that leaves you confused

A state of extreme confusion and disorder

An act causing a disorderly combination of elements with identities lost and distinctions blended;

The formless and disordered state of matter before the creation of the cosmos

A mistake that results from taking one thing to be another;

(Greek mythology) the most ancient of gods; the personification of the infinity of space preceding creation of the universe

(physics) a dynamical system that is extremely sensitive to its initial conditions