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TOPSY-TURVYNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state of extreme confusion and disorder
Synonyms:
bedlam; chaos; pandemonium; topsy-turvydom; topsy-turvyness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("topsy-turvyness" is a kind of...):
confusion (disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "topsy-turvyness"):
balagan (a word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian))
Derivation:
topsy-turvy (in utter disorder)
