gestalt

Plural: gestalten, gestalts

Noun

• A unified whole, perceived as more than its individual 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 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).

Examples

• The entire Words With Friends board, with its interlocking words, formed a complex GESTALT.