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Etymology

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Borrowed fromFrenchstéréotype(adjective),[1] equivalent tostereo- +‎type. Printing sense is from 1817; the “conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image” sense is recorded from 1922 inWalter Lippmann’s bookPublic Opinion.[2]

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Noun

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stereotype (countable anduncountable,pluralstereotypes)

  1. Aconventional,formulaic, and oftenoversimplified orexaggeratedconception,opinion, orimage of (a person or a group of people).
    Coordinate terms:cliché,platitude,single story;archetype,prototype
    Not all Zumbetonians wear plimsolls. That's just astereotype.
    • 1922,Walter Lippmann, chapter VI, inPublic Opinion‎[1]:
      Instead we notice a trait which marks a well known type, and fill in the rest of the picture by means of thestereotypes we carry about in our heads.
    • 2002, Ted C. Lewellen,The Anthropology of Globalization, page178:
      Anthropologists studying aid agencies have found thatstereotypes and deindividualization are endemic among those in refugee work. It may be inevitable that large assistance organizations tend to objectify, simplify, and universalize the people under their care.
    • 2010, Nicholas Collins, Nick Collins,Introduction to Computer Music‎[2]:
      So, although to some observers machine music implies a harsh metronomicity – and some sectors of electronic dance music might be thestereotype here – computers can also be the means of investigating human expression.
    • 2016 June 1, Carina Storrs, “Therapists often discriminate against black and poor patients, study finds”, inCNN‎[3]:
      “Psychotherapists are not immune to the samestereotypes that we all have, and I think they could become even more relevant for psychotherapists than for other professions [both medical and nonmedical], because they are embarking on this intimate, potentially long-term relationship with these [clients],” said Heather Kugelmass, a doctoral student in sociology at Princeton University. Kugelmass is the author of the study (PDF), which was published Wednesday in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
    • 2019 December 18, @WYKLOisREAL,Twitter‎[4], archived fromthe original on22 March 2022:
      Heartwarming: Trans girl breaksstereotypes by being the worst on the girls swim team
    • 2024 July 1, Kim Davis, “How to avoid the ‘stupid American’ stereotype while traveling abroad”, inCNN‎[5]:
      So, here are my top 10 tips on how you can avoid the “stupid American”stereotype and become a “Smart American” abroad.
  2. (psychology) A person who is regarded asembodying orconforming to a setimage ortype.
  4. (printing) Ametalprintingplatecast from amatrixmoulded from araised printingsurface.
    Synonym:cliché
  5. (software engineering) Anextensibilitymechanism of theUnified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with addedspecializations.

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conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image
printing plate
extensibility mechanism of UML

Verb

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stereotype (third-person singular simple presentstereotypes,present participlestereotyping,simple past and past participlestereotyped)

  1. (transitive) To make a stereotype of someone or something, orcharacterize someone by a stereotype.
    • 1957,Karl Popper, chapter 24, inThe Poverty of Historicism, FIRST HARPER TORCH BOOK edition, page90:
      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 andstereotype interests and beliefs by education and propaganda.
    • 1990,Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, “Preface”, inWines in the Wilderness: Plays by African American Women from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present, New York, N.Y.:Praeger Publishers,→ISBN,page xiv:
      The heroines of these plays speak out against intraracial biases,stereotyping, lynchmobs, illiteracy, poverty, promiscuity, self-righteousness, verbally abusive men, rape, and miscegenation.[…] Without warning the doctor, she chokes the life out of her child in order to keep him safe from white lynchmobs.
    • 2018, William James,The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature:
      Saint Teresa, paradoxical as such a judgment may sound, was a typical shrew, in this sense of the term.[…] Her voluble egotism; her sense, not of radical bad being, as the really contrite have it, but of her 'faults' and 'imperfections' in the plural; herstereotyped humility and return upon herself, as covered with 'confusion' at each new manifestation of God's singular partiality for a person so unworthy, are typical of shrewdom: a paramountly feeling nature would be objectively lost in gratitude, and silent.
  2. (transitive, printing) To prepare for printing instereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
    tostereotype the Bible
  3. (transitive, printing) Toprint from astereotype.
  4. (transitive, figurative) To makefirm orpermanent; tofix.

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make a stereotype, or characterize someone by a stereotype
print from a stereotype

Adjective

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stereotype

  1. (literal) Of anedition:printed instereotype.
    • 1817 December,G. O. P. T., “A Chronological Table, Shewing that All the Remarkable Events Recorded in History Concur at the Distance of Five, or Ten, or Thirty Generations of Men”, inThe Gentleman’s Magazine, London: […] Nichols, Son, and Bentley, […],→OCLC, footnote *,page500:
      At the present Epoch (1800), the art of Printing is become rather retrograde; or we should not hear so much ofStereotype editions. Surely the use and very principle of the invention of Printing, is to have the types moveable!
    • 1820,J[ohn] M[ilner], “The Catholic Bible Society”, inSupplementary Memoirs of English Catholics, Addressed toCharles Butler, Esq. […], London: […] Keating and Brown, […] sold also byMurray, […],→OCLC,page243:
      Yet the whole of this mighty preparation ended in the production of a smallstereotype edition of the New Testament, without the usual distinction of verses, and nearly without notes.
    • 1827 June 21,Philadelphia Recorder, quotee, “[Thomas] Scott’s Family Bible, BostonStereotype Edition, […]”, inLitchfield County Post, volume II, number 1 (53 overall), Litchfield, Conn.,→ISSN,→OCLC,page[3], column 5:
      The first edition of this work, (the constant and increasing sale of which proves the high esteem in which it is deservedly held), begun in 1788, and published in London, in numbers, consisted of 5,000 copies; the second in 1805, of 2,000; the third in 1810, of 2,000; the fourth in 1812, of 3,000; and the new edition isstereotype, the largest work ever submitted to that process.
  2. (figurative, now somewhat rare)Synonym ofstereotyped.
    • 1824 (indicated as 1823 December 1), Peregrine Persic[pseudonym;James Justinian Morier], “Introductory Epistle, to the Rev. Dr. Fundgruben, […]”, inThe Adventures of Hajji Baba, of Ispahan. […], volume I, London:John Murray, […],→OCLC,page xi:
      It is an ingenious expression which I owe to you, sir, that the manners of the East are as it werestereotype. Ahhough I do not conceive that they are quite so strongly marked, yet, to make my idea understood, I would say that they are like the last impressions taken from a copper-plate engraving, where the whole of the subject to be represented is made out, although parts of it from much use have been obliterated.
    • 1837,Thomas Carlyle, “Sword in Hand”, inThe French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London:Chapman and Hall,→OCLC, book III (The Tuileries),page116:
      Cartels by the hundred: which he, since the Constitution must be made first, and his time is precious, answers now always with a kind ofstereotype formula: ‘Monsieur, you are put upon my List; but I warn you that it is long, and I grant no preferences.’
    • 1899 May,Alfred Gudeman, “[Henry] Furneaux’s Agricola of Tacitus”, inThe Classical Review, volume XIII, number CXIV, London:David Nutt, […],→ISSN,→OCLC,page216, columns1–2:
      This wonderful passage, with its piercing tenderness and solemn eloquence, is—one shrinks from saying it—a veritable mosaic ofstereotype ideas, characteristic of this particular kind of ‘epilogus,’ or[‘]consolatio,’ as a few illustrations out of many will show.
    • 1990, Ingegerd Lindblad, “Two Standing Tomb-statuettes from the New Kingdom”, in Eva Rystedt, editor,Bulletin, volume25, Stockholm:Medelhavsmuseet,→ISSN,→OCLC,page 3, column 2:
      The posture of the body is very straight with the preserved arm hanging straight down at the side. The body is of the well-known athletic type, that, by no means, isstereotype in its proportions. In the Old Kingdom for example, the shoulders are straighter and normally so broad that the arms hanging down do not even touch the body.

Usage notes

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  • Often undistinguishable from the attributive use of the noun.[1]

References

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  1. ↑1.01.1“stereotype,n. andadj.”, inOED OnlinePaid subscription required⁠, Oxford:Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
  2. ^Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “stereotype”, inOnline Etymology Dictionary, retrieved12 November 2020.

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Etymology

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FromFrenchstéréotype.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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stereotype n (pluralstereotypesorstereotypen,diminutivestereotypetje n)

  1. stereotype

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Adjective

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stereotype

  1. definitenatural masculinesingular ofstereotyp
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