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noun
The study of human actions that lead to the disintegration and increasing disorder of highly evolved social systems.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
The tendency of social systems to disintegrate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, uncountable
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History
Coined in 1955 by Claude Lévi-Strauss as Blend of entropy + anthropology
