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gestalt

ges·talt

UK/ɡəˈʃtælt/ US/ɡəˈʃtɑːlt/ uncommon

noun

1.

a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts

Origin

Borrowed from German Gestalt (“shape, figure, form”).

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