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formlessness

/ˈfɔɹmləsnəs/noun

formlessness is a noun meaning “The quality of being formless” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-M-L-E-S-S-N-E-S-S, and it appears about once in every 34 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of formlessness is formlessnesses.

What does formlessness mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The quality of being formless.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce formlessness?

  • UK /ˈfɔːmləsnəs/
  • US /ˈfɔɹmləsnəs/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of formlessness

  • formlessnesses plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is formlessness?

Formlessness appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does formlessness come from?

From formless + -ness.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).