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gestalt

gestalt

6 9.3
A whole made of parts that is more than the parts added together
  • noun
  • /ɡəˈʃtɑlt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : gestalt
  • And what I'm hearing now the sort of gestalt of, of the discussion we just had is that that too can promote sleepiness, restful States and quality sleep.
  • gestalt therapy
  • gestalt shift
  • gestalt processing

The action itself is a new gestalt of consciousness.

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Examples

  • For listeners, this stage might be characterized by a focus on the overall gestalt of the piece and not on individual elements.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Rather, the intent was that participants notice the gestalt of the player statistics.

    Academic text (2009)
  • But the point is, can I now get a gestalt of this as one person?

  • Because in a big room you have a gestalt listening, which changes over time.

  • The action itself is a new gestalt of consciousness.

  • And that sheer sort of necessity created the whole feel and gestalt for the film.

  • What is required is a theological gestalt, a framework that is at once theological and social scientific.

    Academic text (2005)
  • The right hemisphere is known as the gestalt-dominant hemisphere, and it deals with global or whole processing (the big picture).

    Academic text (2012)
  • The form/Gestalt notion of art making had its philosophical beginnings in Clive Bell's notion of "significant form."

    Academic text (1993)
  • In psychology, a person's perception of a painting often captures the gestalt rather than focusing on individual brush strokes.

Synonyms

tout ensemble
vsgestalt
  • Formal
9.9

The overall look and feeling of a group of things together

emphasizes an emergent whole greater than its parts in perception contexts

Compounds

9.5

A rule that explains how people see separate parts as one whole

How people group things they see into whole shapes, for example when close or similar pieces look like one object

Gestalt psychology
  • Specialized
7.0

A theory that studies how people see whole patterns rather than separate parts

Surface Forms

gestalt singular
gestalts plural

Etymology

The word gestalt comes from the German verb gestalten, which means 'to shape' or 'form' and is like the English words 'shape' and 'form'. So a gestalt is an organized whole: you see the complete shape or pattern instead of just the separate parts.