amorphism

An Amorphism, in chemistry, crystallography and, by extension, to other areas of the natural sciences is a substance or feature that lacks an ordered form.

Amorphism (1985)

In the history of chemistry, amorphism was recognised even before the discovery of the nature of the exact atomic crystalline lattice structure.

Jon McCafferty's paintings contain layers of geometric and biomorphic shapes, which lean toward amorphism.

The concept of amorphism can also be found in the fields of art, biology, archaeology and philosophy as a characterisation of objects without form, or with random or unstructured form.

"It is the great quintessence, it is the happy death of all individuality and memory, it is the synthesis of all living and dead things into the great amorphism.