formlessness
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7.2
- noun
- /ˈfɔrmˌlɛs.nəs/
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falta de forma
- The fog created a sense of formlessness in the landscape, obscuring the outlines of the trees and buildings.
It'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.
Academic text (2003) -
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
A quality of having no clear shape, form, or character
A lack of any clear form, for example in ideas or art
A state of being unclear with no definite meaning or edges
A state of being unclear and hard to understand
Lack of clear detail that makes things hard to see or hear
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.