Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·german ·1920s
Gestalt
from Gestalt
- Meaning
- Shape, form — a configuration whose whole is more than its parts.
- Source word
- Gestalt
- Route into English
- Gestalt psychology (Wertheimer, Köhler, Koffka, 1910s); English psychology adopted the term wholesale.
- Arrived
- 1920s
English borrows.
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