amorphousnessn.
/əˈmɔːfəsnəs/, U.S. /əˈmɔrfəsnəs/, /eɪˈmɔrfəsnəs/ The state or condition of being amorphous (in various senses); shapelessness. Also: an instance of this.
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the world > space > shape > lack of shape > [noun]
unshapefulness1535
shapelessness1587
amorphy1704
formlessness1727
amorphism1835
amorphousness1843
1843 Z. Bliss Idea Spiritual Interpr. Script. 70 For through one or the other of these kinds of belief is it that any thing takes the form of knowledge at all; or begins to put off its amorphousness and become seemingly determinate for the intellect.
1878 ‘J. H. Alexander’ Lights on Way 181 He seems ever in haste.., the result of which, as it appears in his works, is an amorphousness, a want of balance and structural truth.
1916 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1915 51 885 The hardness is to be referred at least in part to the amorphousness of this alpha iron.
1963 H. H. Kleinman Relig. Sonnets Dylan Thomas vi. 74 The long night of uncreated void is over, and the amorphousness of chaos is at an end.
2010 M. Paris Framing Equal Opportunity i. 30 The amorphousness and variation that characterizes most social movements.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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