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chaosmos

noun

Etymology

Blend of chaos + cosmos. Coined by Irish novelist and poet James Joyce his in 1939 novel Finnegans Wake.

  1. learned borrowing from κόσμοι
  2. derived from *ḱens-✻ — “to announce, proclaim; to put in order”
  3. derived from κόσμος — “order; universe; the earth, the world; decoration, ornament”
  4. inherited from cossmos — “the universe; the world”
  5. compounded as chaosmos — “chaos + cosmos”

Definitions

  1. The world, viewed as a fusion of order and disorder.

    • This chapter analyses the elements that characterize Eco's tension between order and disorder, between cosmos and chaos, and that bring him to find a middle theory that characterizes his chaosmos.

  2. The world, viewed as a meaningless assemblage of infinite perspectives.

    • For me, there is nothing outside the chaosmos. However, that does not mean that the chaosmos is unified, totalized, or complete.
    • This is an evocation of the messy multiplicity and ambiguity of consumers and outsiders, in the warm chaosmos and on the far fringes of Birdland.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for chaosmos. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA