babeldom

Etymology

From a conflation of babble + -dom and Babel + -dom.

babeldom means A confused mix of voices, languages, or words and ideas. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

Why this word is great

BABELDOM — [Noun] A state of chaotic noise and confusion arising from a multitude of voices, languages, or conflicting ideas. From a conflation of Babel, the biblical city associated with a confusion of languages (from Hebrew Bavel), and the suffix -dom (from Old English dōm, denoting a state or condition). Unlike cacophony, which denotes a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds, or pandemonium, which emphasizes a state of wild, often physical uproar, babeldom is the specific condition of failed communication, where meaning drowns in its own multiplicity. It is the dissonant soundscape of a hundred private phone calls, the furious cross-talk of a committee where no two members share a lexicon, and the silent, scrolling dissonance of a hundred open browser tabs each arguing a different truth—the melancholic human condition of speaking, endlessly, into a sea of uncomprehending ears.

noun

A confused mix of voices, languages, or words and ideas.“Only a German hobbledehoy was coarse with me, and cursed at my aping foreign Babeldoms, and thundered out in his beery bass, " At a Tscherman mummery must the Tschennan Tscherman speak."”
A state of noisy confusion and chaotic activity“HPSCHD is, literally, describable — six harpsichords, movie and still projections of lunar and terrestrial landscapes (courtesy of NASA), a vertiginous polyglot of quaquaversal dispersion, a Babeldom of visual and aural stimuli — but, like nearly all of Cage's work, its impact lies totally in the experiential effect of being there.”
A multiplicity of mutually unintelligible languages.“In connection with both are night-schools for adults, which are also largely attended by Arabs, Copts, Jews, Levantines, and Europeans of almost every nationality: the waifs-and-strays of Babeldom who have no time for school-work by day, but who take industriously to it six evenings a week under the attractions here offered.”