negentropy

Meaning

Noun

• The difference between the entropy of a system and the maximum possible entropy of the same system.
• The difference between the entropy of a probability distribution and the maximum possible entropy of the same probability distribution.

Related

Similar words

• centropy
• disentropy
• entaxy
• extropy

Opposite words

• entropy

Origin

• A , coined by the French physicist Léon Brillouin (1889–1969). The term negative entropy was introduced by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961) in his book What is Life? (1944, based on lectures delivered in February 1943).