Amorphy
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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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More examples"[…] 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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