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Shapelessness

Shapeless \Shape"less\, a. Destitute of shape or regular form; wanting symmetry of dimensions; misshapen; -- opposed to shapely. -- Shape"less*ness, n.

The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice.
--Pope.

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shapelessness

n. 1 (context uncountable English) The property of being shapeless. 2 (context countable English) The result or product of being shapeless.

WordNet
shapelessness
  1. n. an amorphous or indefinite shape; "a shapeless mass"

  2. the quality of lacking an esthetically pleasing shape

Usage examples of "shapelessness".

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.

Now Cal could see manlike hunching and bulgings of the shoulder muscles under the warmsuit's shapelessness, as the alien climbed and a certain trick of throwing the head from right to left to keep a constant watch for a better route up the face of the rock wall.

I knew only too well what was in Hansen's mind's eye: that charred and huddled shapelessness that had once been my brother.