chaophilia
Definitions
Spurious overemphasis of or oversubscription to chaos theory and/or its characteristic concepts.
nonce-word, rare, uncountable
Examples
“[H]ow can we not deplore the all too frequent distortions of “importations” by anthropologists who think⟳ they are “hardening” their discipline by consistently using the language of the “hard” sciences? This is a particularly pernicious form⟳ of popularization…Whence the “Gödelism,” “chaophilia,” and other “complexolatries” of certain social scientists, who are doing nothing to help⟳ their own⟳ disciplines[.]”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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