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語源

First attested in 1812: shaped +‎ -ness.

発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: shāp(t)ʹnəs, IPA^(key): /ˈʃeɪptnəs/

名詞

shapedness (uncountable)

1. (in parasynthetic derivatives) The quality of being shaped in the specified manner.
   • 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.