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:

    “In a town-meeting, the great secret of political science was uncovered, and the problem solved, how to give every individual his fair weight in the government, without any disorder from numbers. In a town-meeting, the roots of society were reached. Here the rich gave counsel, but the poor also; and moreover, the just and the unjust.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind’s disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.”
    —Gérard De Nerval (1808–1855)

    “Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the obvious one for the case in point. Is not crisis itself a concept we owe to Hippocrates? In the social and cultural domain no metaphor is more apt than the pathological one.”
    —Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)