chaosmos

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The world, viewed as a fusion of order and disorder. uncountable
    — 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. uncountable
    — For me, there is nothing outside the chaosmos. However, that does not mean that the chaosmos is unified, totalized, or complete.

词源

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