informity

noun

1. Absence of regular form; shapelessness.

   countable, obsolete, uncountable

   And again, on the other hand, it does not appear, that this informity ought to mislead the discriminating enquirer, for as soon as he has become conscious of it his greatest danger is over, and a knowledge of the parent tongues, the Anglo Saxon and French, ought to afford a sufficient safeguard, and enable him to discern at once, whether a particular form of spelling ought to be attributed to corrupt usage, or a closer approximation to one of the superior tongues.

2. The quality or state of being informed.

   countable, uncountable

   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.

Where it comes from

From Latin informitas. See inform (adjective).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry informity (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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