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
This is a man who, armed with only the grain of an idea — what Henry James calls the “windblown” seed — lives for weeks in a state of formlessness.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2020
His lyrics have traditionally dovetailed neatly with this sense of formlessness, leading listeners through word-puzzle mazes of dreamlike poetic fragments on tracks like 2013’s Overgrown.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 5, 2019
There are suggestions of cumin and garlic, practically dreamlike in their fleetingness and formlessness.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2018
It was a kind of formlessness without any definition....
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
