chaos vs nihilism

chaos

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

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

  • The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony. 

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

nihilism

noun
  • A doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life; in particular, the view that nothing in the world actually exists. 

  • The rejection of, or opposition to, religious beliefs, (inherent or objective) moral principles, legal rules, etc., often due to the view that life is meaningless (sense 1). 

  • The rejection of non-proven or non-rationalized assertions in the social and political spheres of society. 

  • A delusion that oneself or the world, or parts thereof, have ceased to exist. 

  • Something that is regarded as meaningless. 

  • The view that all endeavours are devoid of objective meaning. 

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