nonform

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noun

That which lacks a form; something inchoate.

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Meanings

nounnonform (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThat which lacks a form; something inchoate.

    The garden of nonform varies depending on who is defining the particular space. The garden of nonform is the source material of all prepurposed space.

    2003, Jonathan Eric Molvik, Prepurposed Space and the Garden of Nonform, page 1
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    The shaman […] enters nonform, the underlying chaos of the unconceptualized domain which has not yet been made a part of cosmos by the cultural activity of naming and defining.

    2023, Wayland D. Hand, American Folk Medicine: A Symposium, page 103

Origin

non- + form

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APA

nonform. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonform

MLA

“nonform.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonform. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nonform,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonform.

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