gestalt

UK: 'gestalt', 'Gestalt': /ɡəˈʃtælt/

US: (gə shtält′, -shtôlt′, -stält′, -stôlt′)

Inflections of 'gestalt' (n):

gestalts

npl

gestalten

npl

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

ge•stalt  (gə shtält′, -shtôlt′, -stält′, -stôlt′), n., pl. -stalts, -stal•ten (-shtäl′tn, -shtôl′-, -stäl′-, -stôl′-). (sometimes cap.) [Psychol.]

1. Psychology a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that cannot be derived from the summation of its component parts;
   a unified whole.
2. Psychology an instance or example of such a unified whole.

• German: figure, form, structure
• 1920–25

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Gestalt / ɡəˈʃtælt/ noun ( -stalts, -stalten / -ˈʃtæltən/)

1. (sometimes not capital) a perceptual pattern or structure possessing qualities as a whole that cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts

Etymology: 20th Century: German: form, from Old High German stellen to shape