amorphy

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ -morphy.

Noun

amorphy (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) shapelessness
   • 1704, Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub and Other Works:

     […] 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.

Synonyms

• amorphicity
• amorphousness

References

• “amorphy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.