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Amorphousness

Amorphous \A*mor"phous\, a. [Gr. ?; 'a priv. + morfh` form.]

  1. Having no determinate form; of irregular; shapeless.
    --Kirwan.

  2. Without crystallization in the ultimate texture of a solid substance; uncrystallized.

  3. Of no particular kind or character; anomalous.

    Scientific treatises . . . are not seldom rude and amorphous in style.
    --Hare. [1913 Webster] -- A*mor"phous*ly, adv. -- A*mor"phous*ness, n.

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amorphousness

n. The state or quality of being amorphous.

Usage examples of "amorphousness".

It was a scene from a vision of Fuseli, and over all the rest reigned that riot of luminous amorphousness, that alien and undimensioned rainbow of cryptic poison from the well--seething, feeling, lapping, reaching, scintillating, straining, and malignly bubbling in its cosmic and unrecognizable chromaticism.

He was pulled out of bed and into empty space, and for a moment he heard a rhythmic roaring and saw the twilight amorphousness of the vague abysses seething around him.

It was a scene from a vision of Fuseli, and over all the rest reigned that riot of luminous amorphousness, that alien and undimensioned rainbow of cryptic poison from the well - seething, feeling, lapping, reaching, scintillating, straining, and malignly bubbling in its cosmic and unrecognizable chromaticism.