Gestalt (noun)
ges-talt
something with two or more parts that are so integrated that they are perceived as one.
First used between 1920–25, directly from German Gestalt, “figure, form, structure.”
Example sentences
“The gestalt of the joints showed the carpenter’s skill.”
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