Entropic
/ɛnˈtroʊpɪk/noun
Relating to entropy, especially the tendency toward disorder or energy dispersal in a system.
Did you know?Entropic comes from the same Greek root as entropy, coined in the 19th century to name a real physical law of increasing disorder, not a mystical force.
Etymological Timeline
Ancient Greek
Greek
τροπή (tropḗ)
“a turning, a change, a turn”
19th Century
French
entropie
“entropy, a thermodynamic measure of disorder or unavailable energy”
1860s
English
entropy
“a term adopted in physics for the measure of disorder or unavailable energy”
Late 19th Century
English
entropic
“relating to entropy”
Modern English
English
entropic
“characterized by entropy or increasing disorder”