The act or process of forming, shaping, or giving form to something; the result of being formed.
From efform + -ation suffix, following Latin noun formation patterns. Used in philosophical and theological discourse to describe creative and formative processes.
This word lets us understand how medieval thinkers distinguished between raw potential and actualized form—'efformation' was the magical moment when chaos became cosmos, potential became real.
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