Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being shaped in the specified manner.
1 more example
1812, July 19th: A. D. M. H. F. S. A., A Description of More Than Three Hundred Animals, Including Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Serpents, and Insects, “A Description of Beasts”, Book I: “Of Quadrupeds, or Four-Footed Beasts”, page 60, “The Elephant” The Elephant…[i]s reckoned the most intellectual animal in the creation after man. […] Nature, always impartial in the distribution of her gifts, has given this bulky quadruped a quick instinct nearly approaching to reason, in compensation for the uncouthness and ill-shapedness of his body.
Origin
First attested in 1812: shaped + -ness.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
shapedness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shapedness
“shapedness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shapedness. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “shapedness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shapedness.
Source: shapedness on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.