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structureless, a.|ˈstrʌktjʊəlɪs| [f. structure n. + -less.] Lacking organic structure.
1847–9W. H. Walshe in Todd's Cycl. Anat. IV. 104/1 Granular matter lying in a structureless substance. 1856Ruskin Mod. Paint. IV. v. xiii. §4 That structureless and massive rock which we have characterized by the term ‘compact crystalline’. 1879Haeckel's Evol. Man II. xv. 33 It is only in the case of Monera,—of structureless organizations without organs—that we can assume the hypothesis of spontaneous generation. 1896Tablet 1 Feb. 161 The structureless creed of the Board schools. Hence ˈstructurelessness.
1859Huxley in Todd's Cycl. Anat. V. 476/1 The structurelessness of a homogeneous membrane. 1892Nation (N.Y.) 7 Apr. 263/1 It is a fact which absolutely overthrows the whole theory of poetic structure or structurelessness implied in Whitman's volumes. |