Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state or quality of being amorphous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being amorphous or without shape; specifically, absence of crystallization; want of crystalline structure, even in the minutest particles, as in glass, opal, etc.
- noun The anarchic, communistic system proposed by the Russian Bakunin; universal and absolute anarchy; nihilism; extreme communism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A state of being amorphous; esp. a state of being without crystallization even in the minutest particles, as in glass, opal, etc.
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- noun
amorphous quality
Etymologies
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Examples
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I like my mores like I like my marriageson paper because polyamory is not bigamy more or less it is homophone homology the more the merrier love overturns amorphism
Mores Alex Taitague 2011
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The phenomena which are produced in both methods of tempering may be interpreted in different ways, but it seems likely that there is a molecular approximation, an amorphism from which results the homogeneity that is due to the absence of crystallization.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 Various
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If the upper-middle class, with other classes, is destined to "move on" into amorphism, here, pickled in these pages, it lies under glass for strollers in the wide and ill-arranged museum of Letters.
The Forsyte Saga - Complete John Galsworthy 1900
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If the upper-middle class, with other classes, is destined to "move on" into amorphism, here, pickled in these pages, it lies under glass for strollers in the wide and ill-arranged museum of Letters.
The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property John Galsworthy 1900
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If the upper-middle class, with other classes, is destined to "move on" into amorphism, here, pickled in these pages, it lies under glass for strollers in the wide and ill-arranged museum of Letters.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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In his quest to become the most famous vessel for political amorphism, Taylor has never led in D.C. on a single issue or even scored a committee chairmanship.
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In his quest to become the most famous vessel for political amorphism, Taylor has never led in D.C. on a single issue or even scored a committee chairmanship.
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In his quest to become the most famous vessel for political amorphism, Taylor has never led in D.C. on a single issue or even scored a committee chairmanship.
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Avicenna expounded a respect and amorphism of the human soul.
The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public Binda Preet Sahni 2010
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In his quest to become the most famous vessel for political amorphism, Taylor has never led in D.C. on a single issue or even scored a committee chairmanship.
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