| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A lack of order or regular arrangement: chaos, clutter, confusedness, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disorderedness, disorderliness, disorganization, jumble, mess, mix-up, muddle, muss, scramble, topsy-turviness, tumble. Slang : snafu. See ORDER. 2. Serious mental illness or disorder impairing a person's capacity to function normally and safely: brainsickness, craziness, dementia, disturbance, insaneness, insanity, lunacy, madness, mental illness, psychopathy, unbalance. Psychiatry : mania. Psychology : aberration, alienation. See SANE.
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