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noun

Physical confusion
disarray, confusion, jumble, shambles; see confusion 2.
Social confusion
disturbance, tumult, uproar, bustle, discord, turbulence, misrule, turmoil, upheaval, complication, chaos, mayhem, terrorism, rioting, mob rule, anarchy, anarchism, lawlessness, disorderliness, rowdiness, imbroglio, entanglement, commotion, agitation, insurrection, revolution, rebellion, strike, disorganization, riot, state of violence, reign of terror, mobocracy, ochlocracy, tangled skein, ruckus*; see also disturbance 2, trouble 2.
Antonyms order*, peace, tranquility.
An illness
ailment, sickness, malady, dysfunction; see disease. See syn. study at confusion.

verb

disarrange, clutter, scatter; see confuse, disorganize.

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