gestalt

hahmo 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 being)

This biography is the first one to consider fully the writers gestalt.''

The clusters of behavioral gestalten... the probability factors... the subtypes of crimes... the constellations of criminal subtypes... — Jay Kirk, "Watching the Detectives", Harpers Magazine, Vol. 307, Iss. 1839; pg. 61, Aug, 2003

Mary did not approve of the Eleanor gestalt. "I been to Woonsocket S.D., Eleanor McGoverns hometown," she said, "and nobody there? I mean nobody? dresses like that."'' — John L. Hess and Karen Hess, "The Taste of America", Grossman, New York, 1977

... depending on the kinds of speech children hear directed to them, they may first learn unanalyzed "gestalts" (e.g., social expressions like "Whats that?" uttered as a single unit) instead of learning single words that are then freely recombined ...''— Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, "The Origins of Grammar", The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1996

So different were our appearances and approaches and general gestalts that we had something of an epic rivalry from 74 through '77. — David Foster Wallace, "A Supposedly Fun Thing Ill Never Do Again", Boston: Little, Brown and Co., Edition: 1st Back Bay ed., 1998