one word [order]
(ref: here ) "Nobody knows," replied the doctor. "Knows what," I asked, more bored than anything else. "Nobody really knows what chaos looks like." "Well of course they do - it's simply the opposite of order, right?" "No, order doesn't have an opposite. 'order' is simply the degree to which something is organized." "Right ..." "So saying that order is the opposite of chaos is like saying chaos is the degree to which something is disorganized." "Right ..." "But that's not it at all ... we can't measure disorganization and so we can't identify chaos. All we can measure is organization." "Yes, but isn't this simply one of those negative definitions - where you identify something by what it isn't?" "No - you can use them for analogies but not definitions." "Oh, I see; I guess you're right. But that doesn't ...