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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Its error is to confuse formlessness with freedom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
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
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
Some have recognizable faces, even painted ones; others appear to be deliquescing into formlessness, their arms and torsos stuck together like tallow.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2018
It was a kind of formlessness without any definition....
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
