informity means absence of regular form; shapelessness.
Etymology
From Latin informitas. See inform (adjective).
noun
- Absence of regular form; shapelessness.“There may I confesse from this narrow time of gestation ensue a minority or smalnesse in the exclusion, but this however inferreth no informity, and it still receiveth the name of a naturall and legitimate birth; whereas if we affirme a totall informity, it cannot admit so forward a terme as an Abortment; for that supposeth conformation; and so we must call this constant and intended act of nature”
- The quality or state of being informed.“Indeed, it would have been hard to collect material with more possibilities for differing estimates among teachers who for many years had corrected compositions from a much narrower field and therefore of much greater informity both in technical accuracy and in general character.”