Crossword clues for disorganization
disorganization
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disorganization \Dis*or`gan*i*za"tion\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]sorganisation. See Disorganize, v. t.]
The act of disorganizing; destruction of system.
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The state of being disorganized; as, the disorganization of the body, or of government.
The magazine of a pawnbroker in such total disorganization, that the owner can never lay his hands upon any one article at the moment he has occasion for it.
--Sir W. Scott.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of disorganizing; destruction of system. 2 The state of being disorganized; as, the disorganization of the body, or of government.
WordNet
n. a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted [syn: disorganisation, disarrangement]
the disturbance of a systematic arrangement causing disorder and confusion; "the disorganization of the enemy troops by a flank attack" [syn: disorganisation]
Usage examples of "disorganization".
The horseshoe crab is a primitive fossil of a beast, ancient and uncitified, but he is just as vulnerable to disorganization by endotoxin as a rabbit or a man.
Stuart Land has agreed to cover my torts class until I get back, and has already called three times, distressed by the disorganization of my lesson plan and my office, and offering to repair both.
It is probable that, at the time, the Vendean general had no idea of the completeness of the victory that he had won, or of the disorganization of the enemy.
Yuuzhan Vong frigates and corvettes overcame their initial disorganization and started to hold the starnghters at bay.
But the disorganization of transport, communications, etc. causes endless inconvenience.
Here the Mule saw no uniformity, but the primitive diversity of a strong mind, untouched and unmolded except by the manifold disorganizations of the Universe.
Mammal as paranoid grandee of the grassy plains, that (limbic) region of emotional disorganization, falling sickness, psychosomatic choking, another way of saying terror of the veldt, he thought, which is fear not really of lurkers in long grass but of the veldt itself, its terrifying endlessness, its obliteration of both singularity and pluralism, its lack of soul-cozying nooks, its tendency to disappear into itself, leaving us, he thought, with the geometry, music and poetry of our evolved, cross-referencing and highly specialized outer layer of gray tissue (cerebral cortex), not to mention celestial mechanics, medicine, the research and development of wars, not to mention voiceless cries in the night, utterly neomammalian this last activity, a cortical subclass of fear itself itself itself, thought Jean at her typewriter, staring at page twenty, numbered but otherwise blank, and wondering what it would take to "remember through"
Now, that shoots down a lot of theories about poverty and discrimination and social injustice and social disorganization.