gestalt
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- noun
- /ɡəˈʃtɑlt/
- Specialized
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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.
- The action itself is a new gestalt of consciousness.
- It's sort of railing against the gestalt of time and gravity.
- The word mother in pure consciousness created this whole gestalt of experiences.
- They needed complex gestalts, not simple gestalts.
- And that sheer sort of necessity created the whole feel and gestalt for the film.
- And then look at the thing as a gestalt as a whole and and say it doesn't have coherence as a whole.
- That gestalt moment that that transcendent event for the person is completely subjective.
- So it's leading us to a shape of consciousness, A gestalt des Beauvois signs, right?
- Because in a big room you have a gestalt listening, which changes over time.
- You go all the way through it because these quantifiable, known quantifiable attributes that pertain to this particular complex gestalt of a target.
- And that way being kind of part and parcel of, of the the gestalt of the scientific method, producing less and less beneficial results.
- 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.
Examples
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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?
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Because in a big room you have a gestalt listening, which changes over time.
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The action itself is a new gestalt of consciousness.
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And that sheer sort of necessity created the whole feel and gestalt for the film.
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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
The overall look and feeling of a group of things together
Compounds
- Specialized
A rule that explains how people see separate parts as one whole
- Specialized
How people group things they see into whole shapes, for example when close or similar pieces look like one object
- Specialized
A theory that studies how people see whole patterns rather than separate parts
Surface Forms
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.