formless
adjective
lacking a definite or regular form or shape; shapeless.
formlessness
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a word derived from
formless.
Example Sentences
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It’s unusual for a film’s relative formlessness to feel so satisfyingly good in the final stretch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2021
I proceed from some open and elusive subconscious formlessness roughly called “me”, definable only by being nothing and nowhere, just the silence in which shapes move.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 28, 2019
There are suggestions of cumin and garlic, practically dreamlike in their fleetingness and formlessness.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2018
Where De Rotterdam uses its chameleonic design to pay homage to the shapelessness of the city, OMA’s Timmerhuis, completed in 2015, offers a subtler kind of formlessness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2018
It was a kind of formlessness without any definition....
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
