ἀκοσμία
akosmia
disorder
Appears 3 times across Aristotle's works.
Frequency by work
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Dictionary (LSJ)
ἀκοσμία, ἡ, A. disorder, Grg. 508a, Tact. 41.2; extravagance, excess, λόγων IA 317:—in moral sense, disorderliness (with play on κόσμος II.1), Fr. 846: in pl., Smp. 188b; αἱ ἀ. τοῦ πλήθους Hom. p.340. 2. absence of κόσμος, chaos, Pr. 205. II. abeyance of κόσμοι, in Crete (κόσμος III), Pol. 1272b8.
Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)
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