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the universe's favorite direction, where coffee cools and ice melts but never the reverse.
means A lack of order — a state of confusion, mess, or interrupted normal function, whether in a room, a crowd, or a body.
from From the prefix dis- ('apart, away, the undoing of') bolted onto 'order,' which traces back through Old French ordre to Latin ordo, ordinis — a 'row, rank, or arrangement,' originally the lined-up threads on a weaver's loom. So 'disorder' is, at root, the threads pulled out of their neat rows: the loom undone, the pattern lost.
- physics name
- entropy measures disorder, and it only ever increases
- shuffle math
- a deck has more orderings than atoms in galaxies
- clean rooms
- tidying expends energy, raising total disorder elsewhere
- life's trick
- organisms create local order by dumping chaos as heat
generalized anxiety disorder — affects approximately 6.8 million american adults annually, diagnosed by persistent excessive worry
dissociative identity disorder — formerly called multiple personality disorder, documented in case studies like chris costner sizemore (eve black)