informities

Noun

informity (countable and uncountable, plural informities)

1. (obsolete) 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...1650, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents
2. 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.1912 January, Thurber, “The Hillegas Scale”, in The English Leaflet, number 104, page 6