# State Explosion

> The degree to which the number of explicit states grows unmanageably as conditions multiply.

Record: `lex:state-explosion`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Design Patterns Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/design-patterns-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lex-state-explosion

## category

- [Behavioral Patterns](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex-category/behavioral-patterns.md)

## referenced-by

- [Finite State Machine](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/finite-state-machine.md)