n. Shapeless character or condition; lack of regular or definite form.
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n. the quality of lacking an esthetically pleasing shape
n. an amorphous or indefinite shape
Word Usage
"Like the contemporary criticism of Olympia, for example, which jeered at Manet for his crude indecency, or that of War and Peace, which condescended to Tolstoy for the inept "shapelessness" of the novel, it now seems magnificently misguided."