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UK
/ɡəʃtˈɑːlt/
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NOUN
- a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts
How To Use gestalt In A Sentence
- Gestalt psychology has arrived at a new understanding of it.
- The only redeeming feature about this bot is that he merges to form a giant gestalt killing machine. Worst. Transformer. Ever.
- My Quiet of Gold is an exhibition from the renowned Hasselblad Foundation in Gothenburg, and is currently on view at Gestalten Space, Berlin. Evelyne Politanoff: Cooper and Gorfer: "My Quiet of Gold,"A Journey in Rural Kyrgyzstan
- When one reads the total gestalt of the antiabortionist movement in America, it is clear to see that the average 'pro lifer' is not pro-life at all, certainly not pro-quality life. Rev. Chuck Freeman: Planned Parenthood Funding: A Religion of Control versus A Religion of Life
- The human brain continuously processes, weighs, and forms decision trees about a tremendous amount of information from the ‘outside’ world, integrating it to a gestalt map that informs and influences everything we do or say. 2008 May « Hyperpat’s HyperDay
- But — one might coldly ask, with a certain gestalt bent — don’t the miserable survivors at least make better widgets? The Drama of the Gifted Parent
- The emotive word led the two gestaltists to also overlook my contrary concept on the preceding page.
- Fuller's ideas about creating more flexible, sustainable structures by combining technology with models of good design found in nature, like geodesics, were a gestalt to his inquisitive mind.
- Call it coincidence, synchronicity, gestalt or just Reading Too Much Into Things, but I love it when this happens.
- In a clear departure from Brentano, Husserl and Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty brings in the idea of gestalt and dares to interrogate the lived-body. Merleau-Ponty takes the tradition of Western philosophy to its limits