War vs. Chaos — What's the Difference?

War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, aggression, destruction, and mortality, using regular or irregular military forces.

Complete disorder and confusion

A state of open, armed, often prolonged conflict carried on between nations, states, or parties.

A condition or place of great disorder or confusion.

The period of such conflict.

A disorderly mass; a jumble

The techniques and procedures of war; military science.

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

A condition of active antagonism or contention

Chaos theory.

A concerted effort or campaign to combat or put an end to something considered injurious

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

To wage or carry on warfare.

(Obsolete) An abyss; a chasm.

To be in a state of hostility or rivalry; contend.

The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.

(uncountable) Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always involving active engagement of military forces.

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

(countable) A particular conflict of this kind.

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

Protracted armed conflict against irregular forces, particularly groups considered terrorists.

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

Protracted conflict, particularly

(obsolete) A vast chasm or abyss.

Campaigns against various social problems.

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

(business) A protracted instance of fierce competition in trade.

An empty, immeasurable space; a yawning chasm.

(crime) A prolonged conflict between two groups of organized criminals, usually over organizational or territorial control.

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

(Internet) An argument between two or more people with opposing opinions on a topic or issue.

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

An assembly of weapons; instruments of war.

A state of extreme confusion and disorder

(obsolete) Armed forces.

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

Any of a family of card games where all cards are dealt at the beginning of play and players attempt to capture them all, typically involving no skill and only serving to kill time.

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

(intransitive) To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).

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

(transitive) To carry on, as a contest; to wage.

Ware; aware.

A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.

A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.

Instruments of war.

Forces; army.

The profession of arms; the art of war.

A state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility.

To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence.

To contend; to strive violently; to fight.

To make war upon; to fight.

To carry on, as a contest; to wage.

The waging of armed conflict against an enemy;

A legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply;

An active struggle between competing entities;

A concerted campaign to end something that is injurious;

Make or wage war