holistic perception of something - seeing it as a whole.
whole, figure, form, pattern, meaning, configuration
A term used to express any unified whole whose properties cannot be derived by adding the parts and their relationships; an entity that is more than the sum of its parts.
Refers to the process of perceiving objects, physical and social, as whole units, not separable into parts.
Structure, configuration or pattern (e.g., a melody) made up of psychological phenomena (e.g., perceptions) so integrated as to constitute a functional whole whose properties are not derivable from the sum of its parts.
a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts
a form, and there is a form which is present in a whole which is lost when the parts are examined in detail without reference to their relationship to the whole
a German word for "form", and is a psychological term defined as a "perceived organized whole that is greater than the sum of its parts
a structure, configuration, or pattern of phenomena that constitutes a semantic unit with a meaning that is not derivable from its parts
a unified whole, a configuration, an organized field or a pattern
A German word for "form", defined as an organized whole in experience. The Gestalt psychologists, about 1912, advanced the theory which explains psychological phenomena by their relationships to total forms rather than their parts.
A German term roughly meaning form, configuration, shape, or essence. The term is used to refer to unified wholes, complete structures or totalities which cannot be reduced to the sum of their parts.
(geh-SHTALT): An organized whole, in which the parts "derive their character from the structure of the whole" ( Runes). In this way an experience may derive its character from the context, interpretation etc. See also Hermeneutic.
A structrre, configuration, or layout whose specific properties are greater than the simple sum of its individual parts.
A whole that is perceived as such and that is not reducible to the mere sum of its parts.
A theory of psychology that asserts that perception is a process whereby images are perceived as wholes and patterns. The perception of the total context introduces the emergent qualities which affect the way in which a thing is comprehended.
Gestalt was the name of a system call introduced into the Apple Macintosh operating system System Software 6.0.4 in 1989 to allow applications to dynamically query what capabilities were present in the running system configuration.