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gestalt

[ guh-shtahlt, -shtawlt, -stahlt, -stawlt ]

noun

(sometimes initial capital letter)
plural gestalts, gestalten
  1. a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that cannot be derived from the summation of its component parts; a unified whole.
  2. an instance or example of such a unified whole.


Gestalt

/ ɡəˈʃæ /

noun

  1. 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
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of gestalt1

1920–25; < German: figure, form, structure
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of gestalt1

C20: German: form, from Old High German stellen to shape
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And if you take things out, you’re losing the power of the gestalt, essentially, of the larger gesture that they made.

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On the title track, listeners are greeted with glitchy vocal samples before Joachim puts new elements into the gestalt, and quickly.

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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.

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The guides, it said, reflect “the whole gestalt of India’s association with sky and space.”

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It chronicles Mr. Lee’s career before and after Marvel, the publisher’s initial forays into animation and television and some of the creative gestalt that gave birth to the Fantastic Four and other superheroes.

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