pandemonium

Etymology

Coined by the poet John Milton in Paradise Lost (1667) as the name of the capital of Hell, from Greek pan- ("all") + Late Latin daemonium ("demon") — literally "place of all demons." The word later came to mean any scene of chaos and uproar.

Origin: Late Latin · First attested 1667

Class of 1667

pandemonium first entered the language around 1667.