Disorder

Disorder may refer to :

  • Randomness, non-order or no intelligible pattern
  • Civil disorder, one or more forms of disturbance caused by a group of people
  • Disease, an abnormal condition affecting the body of an organism

Psychological disorders:

  • Anxiety disorder, different forms of abnormal and pathological fear and anxiety
  • Conversion disorder, neurological symptoms such as numbness, blindness, paralysis, or fits, where no neurological explanation is possible
  • Mental disorder, a psychological or behavioral pattern associated with distress or disability that occurs in an individual and is not a part of normal development or culture
  • Obsessive–compulsive disorder, an anxiety disorder characterized by repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing anxiety
  • Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder, obsession with perfection, rules, and organization
  • Personality disorder, an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the culture of the individual who exhibits it
  • Order and disorder (physics).
  • Lawlessness, a lack of laws or law enforcement
  • Randomness, a lack of intelligible pattern or combination in information theory, mathematics, and computer programming
  • Disorder (band), Bristol based hardcore punk band
  • Disorder (film), a Chinese documentary
  • Disorder (album), by The Gazette
  • "Disorder", a song by Joy Division, from their album Unknown Pleasures
  • Dis-order is the CD/DVD/Merchandise mailorder of Displeased Records



Famous quotes containing the word disorder:

    A. Well, an old order is a violent one.
    This proves nothing. Just one more truth, one more
    Element in the immense disorder of truths.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    The doctor found, when she was dead,
    Her last disorder mortal.
    Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)

    I have come back
    but disorder is not what it was.
    I have lost the trick of it!
    The innocence of it!
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)