formlessness
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7.2
- noun
- /ˈfɔrmˌlɛs.nəs/
- The fog created a sense of formlessness in the landscape, obscuring the outlines of the trees and buildings.
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Watch on YouTubeIt's a little silly, but balance the dance between form and formlessness in your life.
- It's a little silly, but balance the dance between form and formlessness in your life.
- So you go from form and then into formlessness.
- It came from the world of formlessness If the shape of your eye and the shape of your legs and.
Examples
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Of course, to write novels displaying such fragmented multiplicity inevitably runs the risk of losing aesthetic unity and resulting in chaotic formlessness.
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My soul swims in it, scattered across time, trapped in the world of formlessness.
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It's a little silly, but balance the dance between form and formlessness in your life.
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You were so brave to embrace formlessness.
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Instead, it gives a tone of formlessness to the society that adopts it.
Academic text (1997) -
Jacob's eyes stare into the formlessness expanding around him.
Fiction book (1990) -
And as the eyes saw less, the ears heard more: I became again aware of the rattling and shrieking formlessness around.
Fiction book (1998) -
The first is to focus on the fact that the change in question eventually ceases—that a form emerges out of formlessness, meaning is achieved, order is established, and so on.
Academic text (2007) -
With its teachings of formlessness, Zen proceeds towards enlightenment in the midst of a tightly structured world, both verbally and nonverbally designed to evoke precise kinds of awareness.
Academic text (1994) -
Consciousness begins, therefore, with a positing of its own sad formlessness, of its dispersed, drifting, spectral tenuousness, of itself as a kind of emptiness or hollow potentiality which is nothing now and whose one chance for reality is to become something someday in the clear, common light.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
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8.7
A lack of clear parts or details that stand out
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7.8
A quality of having no clear shape, form, or character
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7.0
Lack of clear detail that makes things hard to see or hear
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8.8
A state of being unclear with no definite meaning or edges
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6.1
A lack of any clear form, for example in ideas or art
A state of being unclear and hard to understand
Antonyms
How Formed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word formlessness is made from form ('shape') + -less ('without') and -ness ('state' or 'quality'). So formlessness literally means the 'state of having no shape', which is why we use it for clouds, liquids, or art that have no clear structure.