Shapelessness misrepresented by outlines (10)
I believe the answer is:
nebulosity
'shapelessness' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'misrepresented by outlines' is the wordplay.
'misrepresented' is an anagram indicator.
'by'+'outlines'='byoutlines'
'byoutlines' with letters rearranged gives 'NEBULOSITY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for nebulosity that I've seen is " mist".)
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