gestalt
a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that cannot be derived from the summation of its component parts; a unified whole.
an instance or example of such a unified whole.
Origin of gestalt
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How to use gestalt in a sentence
Was kmmern mich Gestalten, deren matten Lichtglanz ich selbst hervorgebracht?
British Dictionary definitions for Gestalt
/ (ɡəˈʃtælt) /
(sometimes not capital) a perceptual pattern or structure possessing qualities as a whole that cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts: See also Gestalt psychology
Origin of Gestalt
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