Amorphy

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    shapelessness obsolete, uncountable

    "[…] as mankind is now disposed, he receives much greater advantage by being diverted than instructed, his epidemical diseases being fastidiosity, amorphy, and oscitation; whereas, in the present universal empire of wit and learning, there seems but little matter left for instruction."

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"[…] as mankind is now disposed, he receives much greater advantage by being diverted than instructed, his epidemical diseases being fastidiosity, amorphy, and oscitation; whereas, in the present universal empire of wit and learning, there seems but little matter left for instruction."

Etymology

From a- + -morphy.

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