Tuesday word: Gestalt
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Gestalt (noun)
gestalt [guh-shtahlt, -shtawlt, -stahlt, -stawlt]
noun (sometimes initial capital letter), plural gestalts, gestalten
1. a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that cannot be derived from the summation of its component parts; a unified whole.
2. an instance or example of such a unified whole.
Related Words
composition, contour, shape, structure
See more synonyms on Thesaurus.com
Origin: 1920–25; < German: figure, form, structure
Example Sentences
Or, as in “Stranger Things” and “Weapons,” the gestalt entity may be ruled by one being devoted to conquest and control.
From Salon
And if you take things out, you’re losing the power of the gestalt, essentially, of the larger gesture that they made.
From Los Angeles Times
On the title track, listeners are greeted with glitchy vocal samples before Joachim puts new elements into the gestalt, and quickly.
From New York Times
The two- or three-word tags, meant to convey the gestalt of a show or movie, regularly help viewers choose a show from the service’s nearly endless library, the company says.
From New York Times
The guides, it said, reflect “the whole gestalt of India’s association with sky and space.”
From Science Magazine
Gestalt (noun)
gestalt [guh-shtahlt, -shtawlt, -stahlt, -stawlt]
noun (sometimes initial capital letter), plural gestalts, gestalten
1. a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that cannot be derived from the summation of its component parts; a unified whole.
2. an instance or example of such a unified whole.
Related Words
composition, contour, shape, structure
See more synonyms on Thesaurus.com
Origin: 1920–25; < German: figure, form, structure
Example Sentences
Or, as in “Stranger Things” and “Weapons,” the gestalt entity may be ruled by one being devoted to conquest and control.
From Salon
And if you take things out, you’re losing the power of the gestalt, essentially, of the larger gesture that they made.
From Los Angeles Times
On the title track, listeners are greeted with glitchy vocal samples before Joachim puts new elements into the gestalt, and quickly.
From New York Times
The two- or three-word tags, meant to convey the gestalt of a show or movie, regularly help viewers choose a show from the service’s nearly endless library, the company says.
From New York Times
The guides, it said, reflect “the whole gestalt of India’s association with sky and space.”
From Science Magazine
