The Collaborative International Dictionary
Formless \Form"less\, a. Shapeless; without a determinate form; wanting regularity of shape. -- Form"less*ly, adv. -- Form"less*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The quality of being formless.
Wikipedia
- The lack of form
- Chaos (cosmogony) the formless or void state preceding the creation of the universe in the Greek creation myths
- Trailokya, world of formlessness, a noncorporeal realm populated with four heavens, possible rebirth destination for practitioners of the four formlessness stages
- Arupadhatu (the world of formlessness) in Borobudur
- Tohu wa-bohu (redirect from Formless and void) Genesis before creation
- Formless, book by Rosalind E. Krauss
- Formless the 2nd album from progressive metal band Aghora, released in December, 2006.
- Formlessness, album by The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die
Usage examples of "formlessness".
Matter becomes mistress of what is manifested through it: it corrupts and destroys the incomer, it substitutes its own opposite character and kind, not in the sense of opposing, for example, concrete cold to concrete warmth, but by setting its own formlessness against the Form of heat, shapelessness to shape, excess and defect to the duly ordered.
It helped him solidify the terrible, chaotic formlessness of this level.
After such exhausting eternities of formlessness, even the shadow of form was a release of tension, almost an explosion of pleasure.
Maybe it cannot speak at all in its own form or formlessness, but only with borrowed tongue, as a gebbeth.
And yet they were here: And yet here was Ultimate, the latest link in a great chain that now passed back through a hundred million grandmothers, morphing and changing, loving and dying, back to Purga herself, and into the formlessness of the still deeper past beyond.
His task is to rid himse of ego so that consciousness, once its usual discordant mental content dumped out of it through ritual prayer and meditation, may experience nonself as a living formlessness and emptiness into which God may come, if it please Him to come.
People who came to Rochdale in formlessness or desperation or freakout, found out what they wanted, and went off to it?
Buddha's 550 lives, sermons in stone to draw the pilgrim toward enlightenment as you circumambulated the shrine through the constricting channels of the phenomenal world, rising terrace by terrace from the realm of forms suddenly, startlingly out onto the broad circular terraces at the summit, the revelation of the open sky, the liberating miracle of formlessness.
Entering the east gate, symbolically swallowed by the gaping mouth of the kala, the monster head carved over the doorway, you turned left (demons lurked on the right) into a narrow passageway lined with bas-reliefs depicting narrative scenes from the Buddha's 550 lives, sermons in stone to draw the pilgrim toward enlightenment as you circumambulated the shrine through the constricting channels of the phenomenal world, rising terrace by terrace from the realm of forms suddenly, startlingly out onto the broad circular terraces at the summit, the revelation of the open sky, the liberating miracle of formlessness.
But other times, and even at the same times, he sensed in them something unreal, unreliable, questionable, a tendency toward perishability and dissolution, a readiness to relapse into formlessness, into chaos.
It's a new gimmick, intended to promote formlessness, to combat sequentiality, and so on: the target-research gurus have established that this goes down a lot better with the homebound.