Definitions
a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts
Word origin
Borrowed from German Gestalt (“shape, figure, form”).
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“So different were our appearances and approaches and general gestalts that we had something of an epic rivalry from '74 through '77.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Unified whole”7 letters
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