Gestalt

Definitions

1. A collection of physical, biological, psychological or symbolic elements that creates a whole, unified concept or pattern which is other than the sum of its parts due to the relationships between the parts (of a character, personality, entity, or being).
2. Alternative letter-case form of gestalt.
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Equivalents

8 more languages

العربيةالجشطالت

Suomiolemus

Bahasa Indonesiagestalt

日本語ゲシュタルト形態

Kurdîprofîl

Polskipostać

Русскийгешта́льт

Svenskagestalt

Examples

“Mary did not approve⟳ of the Eleanor gestalt. "I been to Woonsocket S.D., Eleanor McGovern's hometown," she said, "and nobody there? I mean⟳ nobody? dresses like⟳ that."”

“Thus one activity, talking, is understood in terms of another, physical fighting. Structuring our experience⟳ in terms of such multidimensional gestalts is what makes our experience⟳ coherent.”

“[…] depending on the kinds of speech children hear⟳ directed to them, they may first learn⟳ unanalyzed "gestalts" (e.g., social expressions like⟳ "What's that?" uttered as a single unit) instead of learning single words that are then freely recombined […]”

“So different were our appearances and approaches and general gestalts that we had something of an epic rivalry from '74 through '77.”

“The clusters of behavioral gestalten... the probability factors... the subtypes of crimes... the constellations of criminal subtypes...”

“Obviously it was related to the entire gestalt of Simon's polyphobia and compensatory counterphobia. The boys used to watch⟳ horror movies on late-night television […]”

““He [Robert F. Kennedy Jr.] also said, ‘We’re making vaccinations available. We’re doing this for vaccination. We’re doing that for vaccination.’ So if you take⟳ the gestalt of it, the gestalt was, ‘Let’s get⟳ vaccinated!’””

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