 Arieh Ben-Naim recommends abandonment of the word entropy, rejecting both the 'dispersal' and the 'disorder' interpretations; instead he proposes the notion of "missing information" about microstates as considered in statistical mechanics, which he regards as commonsensical.Increase of entropy in a thermodynamic process can be described in terms of "energy dispersal" and the "spreading of energy," while avoiding mention of "disorder" except when explaining misconceptions.All explanations of where and how energy is dispersing or spreading have been recast in terms of energy dispersal, so as to emphasise the underlying qualitative meaning.