Gestalt

Gestalt is a German word that can be translated into English in various ways:
- as shape, form, guise or likeness
(e.g., in Menschengestalt: in human form)
- as figure or as a synonym for person
(e.g., eine dunkle Gestalt: a sinister figure)
- A collection of physical, biological, psychological or symbolic entities that creates a unified concept, configuration or pattern which is greater than the sum of its parts.