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TOPSY-TURVYNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does topsy-turvyness mean?
• TOPSY-TURVYNESS (noun)
The noun TOPSY-TURVYNESS has 1 sense:
1. a state of extreme confusion and disorder
Familiarity information: TOPSY-TURVYNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state of extreme confusion and disorder
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
bedlam; chaos; pandemonium; topsy-turvydom; topsy-turvyness
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)
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