stereotyping

Pluralstereotypings

1. 1
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The process of reducing a person, group, or thing to a fixed, oversimplified image taken to stand for a whole category.

   Like a stamp that prints the same image on everyone it touches.

   Constant stereotyping in advertisements shaped how the public viewed the profession.

   Researchers found that stereotyping often happens automatically, before any conscious thought.

   Similartypecasting, pigeonholing, generalization, labeling

2. 2
   verb

   Present participle of stereotype.

   Critics accused the film of stereotyping immigrants as criminals.

   By stereotyping every teenager as lazy, the article lost credibility.

   Note

   The -ing form does double duty. After be it is progressive (the press is stereotyping them), and after a preposition it is a gerund (by stereotyping every teenager). Either way it keeps a direct object, often followed by as: stereotyping immigrants as criminals. The same form also serves the printer's trade, where stereotyping a page means producing stereotype plates of it. With no object, the noun for the process takes over.

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