amorphism

[ uh-mawr-fiz-uhm ]

noun

1. the state or quality of being amorphous.
2. Obsolete. nihilism ( def 3 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of amorphism¹

1850–55; < German Amorphismus < Greek ámorph ( os ) amorphous + -ismos -ism

Example Sentences

With that, allow me to present you with the paper’s pull-no-punches thesis: We argue that this strange, short history of social opportunism, diagnostic amorphism, therapeutic self-interest, and popular cultural endorsement is marked by an essential social conservatism–sex addiction has become a convenient term to describe disapproved sex.

From Salon

Amorphism, a-mor′fizm, n. a state of being amorphous or without crystallisation even in the minutest particles.—adj.

From Project Gutenberg

His socialism itself had grown less sane—it was no longer the anarchism of the old days: it was what he called "amorphism"—society not merely without governmental institutions, but without institutions of any kind; and he was domineered by the thought of a universal revolution, in which all States and Churches and all institutions religious, political, judicial, financial, academical, and social should perish in a common destruction.

From Project Gutenberg

"Amorphism" and "Pan-destruction" are not articles of a rational creed, but they were propagated with almost preternatural energy by Bakunin.

From Project Gutenberg

Bakunin, M., in Italy,  57;Hegelian,  261; with German Hegelians,  261; escape,  273; in London,  274; Amorphism,  274; Lyons insurrection,  278; in Zurich,  278.

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