Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or state of typifying.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of typifying, or representing by a figure.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of typifying
  • noun Something which typifies or serves as a type

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of representing by a type or symbol; the action of typifying
  • noun a representational or typifying form or model

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Examples

  • These book-characters with their simplistically clear ethnic/social categories are being objectified through the simplistic typification of their experience.

    And how! Roger Sutton 2007

  • But blindly following the party line from a single glossy magazine that chooses a fellow in a top-hat and monocle as the typification of the New Yorker reader?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Gov. Perry Covering Up the Execution of an Innocent Man? (continued) 2009

  • Your typification of my demand for a return to the economic principles that founded free enterprise as "religious" is nothing less that a scurrilous insult.

    Sound Politics: Post-Mortem: McGavick v. Cantwell 2006

  • Instead, we're left with the subtle typification of anyone interested in serving their country in a military career is mentally unbalanced, essentially attracted by the prospect of violence and killing.

    All he needs now is the grey ponytail 2008

  • It suborns the individual member of the minority to the minority-as-a-whole which denies diversity within the group and furthers the de-individualisation of those members, their typification as not me or you, he or she, but us or them, as not this person or that but as a homogenous group -- Gays, Blacks, Women, etc..

    More on Cultural Appropriation Hal Duncan 2006

  • And your typification of Rossi is just plain false.

    Sound Politics: Post-Mortem: McGavick v. Cantwell 2006

  • Moreover, cognitive theories of typification and language learning support the hierarchy models only for terms which are in principle applicable, but not for ones which are actually applied.

    The Unity of Science Cat, Jordi 2007

  • But since I started working or the Royals I've suddenly become very plummy and southern - the typification of the Queen's English, if you like!

    Drunken ramblings kisobel 2003

  • At one time a very influential conceptual tool emanating from a section of the anti-apartheid movement was the typification of the South African social formation as colonialism of a special type.

    Editorial 2001

  • The manner in which they go about these acts reveals a certain stereo-typification that comes only with experience and long practice.

    Sasaki 1999

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