gestalt
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gestalt (plural gestalts or gestalten)
- A collection of physical, biological, psychological or symbolic elements that creates a whole, unified concept or pattern which is other than the sum of its parts, due to the relationships between the parts (of a character, personality, entity, or being)
- This biography is the first one to consider fully the writer's gestalt.
- 1980, George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, chapter 15, in Metaphors We Live By:
- Thus one activity, talking, is understood in terms of another, physical fighting. Structuring our experience in terms of such multidimensional gestalts is what makes our experience coherent.
- 1996, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, The Origins of Grammar, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press:
- ... depending on the kinds of speech children hear directed to them, they may first learn unanalyzed "gestalts" (e.g., social expressions like "What's that?" uttered as a single unit) instead of learning single words that are then freely recombined ...
- 2008, Jonathan Nasaw, Fear Itself:
- Obviously it was related to the entire gestalt of Simon's polyphobia and compensatory counterphobia. The boys used to watch horror movies on late-night television […]
- 1977, John L. Hess, Karen Hess, The Taste of America, New York: Grossman:
- Mary did not approve of the Eleanor gestalt. "I been to Woonsocket S.D., Eleanor McGovern's hometown," she said, "and nobody there? I mean nobody? dresses like that."
- 1998, David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, 1st Back Bay edition, Boston: Little, Brown and Co.:
- So different were our appearances and approaches and general gestalts that we had something of an epic rivalry from '74 through '77.
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Translations
collection of entities that creates a unified concept
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Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from German Gestalt (“shape, figure, form”).
Noun
gestalt (first-person possessive gestaltku, second-person possessive gestaltmu, third-person possessive gestaltnya)
- (psychology) gestalt: a collection of physical, biological, psychological or symbolic elements that creates a whole, unified concept or pattern which is other than the sum of its parts, due to the relationships between the parts (of a character, personality, entity, or being)
Further reading
- “gestalt” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
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Noun
gestalt c
- a figure ((shape of a) being, especially a human or human-like being)
- de centrala gestalterna i berättelsen
- the central figures (characters) in the story
- en lång gestalt skymtade i dimman
- a tall figure could be seen through the mist
- (more rarely, somewhat poetic) a shape, a form (more generally)
- a gestalt (a whole different from the sum of its parts)
Usage notes
More everyday-sounding compared to English gestalt in (sense 1), matching figure in tone as well.
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | gestalt | gestalts |
| definite | gestalten | gestaltens | |
| plural | indefinite | gestalter | gestalters |
| definite | gestalterna | gestalternas | |
Declension of gestalt
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