Definizione monolingua

gestalt

gestalt (plural gestalts or gestalten)

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 writers gestalt.
   • The clusters of behavioral gestalten... the probability factors... the subtypes of crimes... the constellations of criminal subtypes... — Jay Kirk, ""Watching the Detectives"", Harpers Magazine, Vol. 307, Iss. 1839; pg. 61, Aug, 2003

2. shape, form

   • Mary did not approve of the Eleanor gestalt. ""I been to Woonsocket S.D., Eleanor McGoverns hometown,"" she said, ""and nobody there? I mean nobody? dresses like that."" — John L Hess and Karen Hess, ""The Taste of America"", Grossman, New York, 1977
   • ... depending on the kinds of speech children hear directed to them, they may first learn unanalyzed ""gestalts"" (e.g., social expressions like ""Whats that?"" uttered as a single unit) instead of learning single words that are then freely recombined ...— Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, ""The Origins of Grammar"", The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1996
   • So different were our appearances and approaches and general gestalts that we had something of an epic rivalry from 74 through 77. — David Foster Wallace, ""A Supposedly Fun Thing Ill Never Do Again"", Boston: Little, Brown and Co., Edition: 1st Back Bay ed., 1998

Definizione dizionario gestalt

Altri significati:

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)

collection of entities that creates a unified concept