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gestalt
[ guh-shtahlt, -shtawlt, -stahlt, -stawlt ]
noun
- 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.
Gestalt
/ ɡəˈʃæ /
noun
- 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
Word History and Origins
Origin of gestalt1
Word History and Origins
Origin of gestalt1
Example Sentences
"For me, the foundation of the psychedelic experience is a gestalt experience, so you leave seeing things a different way than you went in."
And if you take things out, you’re losing the power of the gestalt, essentially, of the larger gesture that they made.
On the title track, listeners are greeted with glitchy vocal samples before Joachim puts new elements into the gestalt, and quickly.
The two- or three-word tags, meant to convey the gestalt of a show or movie, regularly help viewers choose a show from the service’s nearly endless library, the company says.
The guides, it said, reflect “the whole gestalt of India’s association with sky and space.”
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