Search for crossword answers and clues
Forest, vis-à-vis the trees
Answer for the clue "Forest, vis-à-vis the trees ", 7 letters:
gestalt
Alternative clues for the word gestalt
Word definitions for gestalt in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It is the duty of the inventor to build a new gestalt for the old one in the framework of society. ▪ Re-arranged, the parts make up a different whole which has a different form or gestalt .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1922, from German Gestaltqualität (1890, introduced by German philosopher Christian von Ehrenfels, 1859-1932), from German gestalt "shape, form, figure, configuration, appearance," abstracted from ungestalt "deformity," noun use of adj. ungestalt "misshapen," ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Gestalt , a German word for form or shape, may refer to: Holism , the idea that natural systems and their properties should be viewed as wholes, not as collections of parts
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 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 ...
Usage examples of gestalt.
Idee zu gestalten und auszufeilen, wie sein Bruder Govannon, der erste der Schmiede, es liebte, mit seinen Werkzeugen ein Schwert zu gestalten und zu schleifen.
Instead, he had separated into his six component gestalt humaniform robots and vanished.
Gestalt erblickt: jetzt kommt er, der lahme Kerl mit dem stinkenden Atem!
Her mental kinesis augmented by a gestalt with the powerful generators that encircled her installation, Siglen could pick up messages from as far away as Earth and Betelgeuse, could locate and land freight drones as easily as others lifted the ordinary artifacts of everyday living.
Wunder der Sehnsucht waren seine Werke, der Sehnsucht nach Form, Gestalt, Begrenzung, Koerperlichkeit, der Sehnsucht hinueber in die klare Welt des anderen, der unmittelbar und mit goettlichem Mund die besonnten Dinge bei Namen nannte.
I immersed myself in psychology texts: clinical, personality, psycho-metrics, learning, experimental psychology, animal psychology, physiological psychology, behaviorist, gestalt, analytical, functional, dynamic, organismic, and all the rest of the ancient and modern factions, schools, and systems of thought.
He opened the message, and his eyes flew all over it in mad saccades, trying to absorb it as a gestalt.
This theory, via Schelling, would lead to much of Gestalt psychology and autopoietic theories of cognition.
Sie kannten ihn, erkannten sein Gesicht ohne jeden Zweifel: das Grauen, das sie trieb, sichtbar geworden, ihre Angst in leibhaftiger Gestalt.
Die ziere Gestalt eines nackten kleinen Maedchens, welche, unreif und zart gegliedert, ihre Haendchen in koketter Keuschheit auf der Brust kreuzte, hielt er am Kopfe erfasst und musterte sie eingehend, indem er sie langsam um sich selbst drehte.
Atemzug lang wurde die strudelnde Gestalt des Grauen Mannes schwarz wie die Nacht.
Also schaute ich in den Kristall und sah seine Kammer in Mur y Castell und die Gestalt eines anderen Mannes, der dort neben Blodeuwedd schlief.
Also to worry about whether he himself was a neurotypical, and if so, was that now bad, in the gestalt of Crake?
I believe our next great evolutionary advancement will be some kind of whacky gestalten outgrowth of the body and the beaner.
Flesher gestalt, limited by anatomy, was much more subdued than the polis versions, but ve thought ve could detect a growing number of faces expressing consternation.