gestalt
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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.
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gestalt (plural gestalts)
- 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.
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collection of entities that creates a unified concept