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.

Generic synonyms: Form, Pattern, Shape

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

gesneriad
gesneriads
gesnerias
gesse
gessed
gesses
gessing
gesso
gessoed
gessoes
gessos
gest
gestagen
gestagenic
gestagens
gestalt
gestalt psychology
gestalt theory
gestalt therapy
gestalten
gestaltism
gestaltist
gestaltists
gestalts
gestant
gestapos
gestate
gestated
gestates
gestating

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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