Etymograph

English

informity

Informity comes from Latin informitas.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinformitas
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1650informity

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEinformitas
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1650informity

Earliest quotation: 1650, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or: “There may I confesse from this narrow time of…”

Today it means

noun Absence of regular form; shapelessness.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin informitas / informity