This is the 1080th most frequent Japanese word.
混乱
"混乱" means "confusion" or "chaos."
Here, '混乱' is used to describe a state of generalized social confusion or disorder caused by external events.
この事件で社会が大きく混乱しました。
Society became greatly confused due to this incident.
In this sentence, '混乱' refers to mental confusion or disorder in thinking, which requires sorting out.
彼は問題を整理するために混乱を落ち着かせようとした。
He tried to calm the confusion to organize the issue.
Here, '混乱' is used to express a mental state of being puzzled or unable to understand clearly.