Usually means: Whole greater than sum parts.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word gestalt:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. gestalt: Merriam-Webster
  2. Gestalt, gestalt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gestalt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Gestalt: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gestalt: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gestalt, gestalt: Wordnik
  7. gestalt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Gestalt, gestalt: Wiktionary
  9. gestalt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gestalt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gestalt: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. gestalt: Dictionary.com
  13. Gestalt: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Gestalt (Mac OS), Gestalt (manga), Gestalt (music), Gestalt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. gestalt: Rhymezone
  16. Gestalt (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. gestalt: FreeDictionary.org
  18. gestalt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. gestalt: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. gestalt: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gestalt, gestalt: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Gestalt: Art Glossary: Terminology for artists

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gestalt: Management Methods, Models, and Theories
  2. Gestalt: Management Dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gestalt: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. gestalt: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. gestalt: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Gestalt: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. gestalt: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gestalt: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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▸ noun:  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)
▸ noun:  Alternative letter-case form of 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)]

Similar:
body, embodiment, person, tout ensemble, cloth, composition, manifestation, figuration, aggregate, point, more...

Opposite:
reductionism, atomism, analysis

Types:
proximity, similarity, closure, continuity, figure-ground, common fate, symmetry, simplicity, more...

Phrases:
Gestalt psychology, gestalt therapy, gestalt theory, gestalt psychologists, gestalt perception, more...

Adjectives:
good, new, total, whole, overall, visual, single, perceptual, entire, cultural, complex


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Similar:
body, embodiment, person, tout ensemble, cloth, composition, manifestation, figuration, aggregate, point, more...

Opposite:
reductionism, atomism, analysis

Types:
proximity, similarity, closure, continuity, figure-ground, common fate, symmetry, simplicity, more...

Phrases:
Gestalt psychology, gestalt therapy, gestalt theory, gestalt psychologists, gestalt perception, gestalt psychotherapy, gestalt phenomena, gestalt law of organization, gestalt principle of organization, more...

Adjectives:
good, new, total, whole, overall, visual, single, perceptual, entire, cultural, complex



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