law of common fate

1. 1.

   a Gestalt principle of organization holding that aspects of perceptual field that move or function in a similar manner will be perceived as a unit

   Synonymscommon fate

   BroaderGestalt law of organization

Questions about law of common fate

What does law of common fate mean?

law of common fate means "a Gestalt principle of organization holding that aspects of perceptual field that move or function in a similar manner will be perceived as a unit".

What is another word for law of common fate?

Close synonyms include common fate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is law of common fate a common word?

law of common fate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.