stereotype

noun

/ˈstɛ.ɹi.əˌtaɪp/UK/ˈstɛɹ.i.əˌtaɪp/CA/ˌstiɹ.joˈtaɪp/

Etymology

Borrowed from French stéréotype (adjective), equivalent to stereo- + type. Printing sense is from 1817; the “conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image” sense is recorded from 1922 in Walter Lippmann’s book Public Opinion.

borrowed from stéréotype

Definitions

1
A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion,…
A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person or a group of people).
- Not all Zumbetonians wear plimsolls. That's just a stereotype.
- Instead we notice a trait which marks a well known type, and fill in the rest of the picture by means of the stereotypes we carry about in our heads.
A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
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1. An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be…
  An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.
2. 5
  To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
  - Unable to ascertain what is in the minds of so many individuals, he must try to simplify his problems by eliminating individual differences: he must try to control and stereotype interests and beliefs by education and propaganda.
3. 6
  To prepare for printing in stereotype
  To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
  - to stereotype the Bible
4. To print from a stereotype.
5. 8
  To make firm or permanent
  To make firm or permanent; to fix.
  - Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions.
6. 9
  Of an edition
  Of an edition: printed in stereotype.
  - At the present Epoch (1800), the art of Printing is become rather retrograde; or we should not hear so much of Stereotype editions. Surely the use and very principle of the invention of Printing, is to have the types moveable!
  - Yet the whole of this mighty preparation ended in the production of a small stereotype edition of the New Testament, without the usual distinction of verses, and nearly without notes.
7. Synonym of stereotyped.

The neighborhood

neighborstereotypy
neighborstereotypography

Derived

counterstereotype, stereotyper, cybertype, metastereotype, stereotype tax, stereotype threat, stereotypic, stereotypical, stereotypist, stereotypographer, stereotypable

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at stereotype. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at stereotype. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at stereotype

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA