LAW OF CLOSURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does law of closure mean? 

• LAW OF CLOSURE (noun)
  The noun LAW OF CLOSURE has 1 sense:

1. a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric

  Familiarity information: LAW OF CLOSURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAW OF CLOSURE (noun)

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Meaning:

A Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

closure; law of closure

Hypernyms ("law of closure" is a kind of...):

Gestalt law of organization; Gestalt principle of organization (a principle of Gestalt psychology that identifies factors leading to particular forms of perceptual organization)