Disorganization

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Disorganization \Dis*or`gan*i*za"tion\, n. [Cf. F.
     d['e]sorganisation. See {Disorganize}, v. t.]
     1. The act of disorganizing; destruction of system.
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     2. The state of being disorganized; as, the disorganization


        of the body, or of government.
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              The magazine of a pawnbroker in such total
              disorganization, that the owner can never lay his
              hands upon any one article at the moment he has
              occasion for it.                      --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  disorganization
       n 1: a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted
            [syn: {disorganisation}, {disarrangement}]
       2: the disturbance of a systematic arrangement causing disorder
          and confusion; "the disorganization of the enemy troops by
          a flank attack" [syn: {disorganisation}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  159 Moby Thesaurus words for "disorganization":
     ablation, anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, anarchy, antinomianism,
     atomization, befuddlement, bewilderment, biodegradability,
     biodegradation, bloodbath, blue ruin, bother, botheration, breakup,
     carnage, chaos, cloud, confusion, consumption, convulsion,
     corrosion, corruption, criminal syndicalism, crumbling, damnation,
     daze, deactivation, decay, decimation, decomposition,
     degradability, degradation, demobilization, depredation,
     derangement, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destruction,
     detachment, devastation, diaspora, dilapidation, disarrangement,
     disarray, disarticulation, disbandment, discombobulation,
     discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertedness, disconcertion,
     disharmony, dishevelment, disintegration, disjunction, dislocation,
     dismissal, disorder, disorderliness, disorientation, dispersal,
     dispersion, disproportion, disruption, dissolution, disturbance,
     embarrassment, entropy, erosion, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter,
     fog, frenzy, fuddle, fuddlement, haphazardness, havoc, haze,
     hecatomb, holocaust, incoherence, indiscriminateness,
     inharmonious harmony, insanity, irregularity, jumble, lynch law,
     maze, mess, mildew, misarrangement, misrule, mist, mob law,
     mob rule, mobocracy, mold, most admired disorder, muddle,
     muddlement, nihilism, nonsymmetry, nonuniformity, ochlocracy,
     oxidation, oxidization, parting, perdition, perplexity,
     perturbation, pother, primal chaos, promiscuity, promiscuousness,
     pucker, randomness, ravage, ravages of time, rebellion, release,
     resolution, revolution, ruffle, ruin, ruination, rust, separation,
     shambles, shuffle, shuffling, slaughter, split-up, spoilage,
     spoliation, stew, sweat, swivet, syndicalism, tizzy, tohubohu,
     turbulence, turmoil, undoing, unruliness, unsettlement, unsymmetry,
     ununiformity, upset, vandalism, waste, wear, wear and tear, wrack,
     wrack and ruin, wreck