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
“Thing or 2” drifts in and out of formlessness.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2023
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
Constructed without lines, only with discrete dabs of color, they were always threatening to dissolve into formlessness.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2021
It was a kind of formlessness without any definition....
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
