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.

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