Contents

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from German Gestalt (“‘shape, figure, form’”). The German term can also apply to a geometric or graphical shape, but that is not the case when this word is used in English.

Pronunciation

Noun

Singular gestalt

Plural gestalts

gestalt (plural gestalts)

  1. 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)
    This biography is the first one to consider fully the writer's gestalt.

Derived terms

 

The above information uses material from Wiktionary and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Some facts may not have been fully verified for accuracy. [Disclaimers]
This page was last archived by our server on Sat Dec 26 12:54:27 2009. [ refresh local cache ]
Displaying this page or its contents does not use any Wikimedia Foundation's resources.
The owners of this site proudly support the Wikimedia Foundation.

[Hide]▼
[Hide]▲