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Definition of Gestalt
1. Noun. A configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts.
Definition of Gestalt
1. Noun. alternative spelling of gestalt ¹
2. Noun. A collection of physical, biological, psychological or symbolic entities that creates a unified concept, configuration or pattern which is greater than the sum of its parts (of a character, personality, or being) ¹
3. Noun. shape, form ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gestalt
1. a unified whole [n -STALTS or -STALTEN]
Medical Definition of Gestalt
1. A perceived entity so integrated as to constitute a functional unit with properties not derivable from its parts. See: gestaltism. Origin: Ger. Shape (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gestalt
Literary usage of Gestalt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1856)
"... gestalt. Leipzig. 1853. 2. Ueber Grund und Bedeutung der verschiedenen Formen
der Hand in verschiedenen Personen. Stuttgart. 1846. 3. ..."
2. Proceedings by International Congress of Americanists (1906)
"binde bekleidete) gestalt, die einen Stab in der durchbohrten Nasenscheidewand
und viereckige ... gestalt ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... in dreifacher gestalt (); JV,. Appell, Winke, und mne Zeit (1855: 4th ed. ...
Faust ¡n seiner ältesten gestalt (1896): H Hellner. ..."
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