polymorphous
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Viewed today, the show’s quirky communitarianism — its idea of America as a polymorphous, all-welcoming dance party — feels like both celebration and requiem for the irreplaceable delight dancing together on a stage.
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2020
To intensify the sense of dissolving boundaries, Quarles has painted her polymorphous people using different techniques.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2019
Examples of polymorphous networks whose symmetries need greater understanding include cubic halide perovskites, paramagnets and paraelectric oxides.
From Nature ● Feb. 26, 2019
Yet, gazing into the eyes of the self-possessed queen Emerald, Cooper’s Maine clearly accepts the polymorphous, femme-driven future the drag bar represents; it’s one of the movie’s sharpest intertextual moments.
From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2018
Pol′ymorph, an organism showing polymorphism: a substance that crystallises in two or more systems; Polymor′phism, the property of being polymorphous.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various