gestalt
noun
a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that cannot be derived from the summation of its component parts; a unified whole.
gestalts
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pluralof gestalt.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Far from being cases of 'stuff', museums are gestalts — complete entities that capture and contextualize the past.
From Nature ● Aug. 15, 2017
Man produces gestalts, and cuts form out of the plethora of nothingness.
From Warm by Ed Emshwiller
We’re replacing the whole thing with broadband uplinks of gestalts from each of the Presidents’ lives: newspaper headlines, speeches, distilled biographies, personal papers.
From Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
