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ˈstereotyped, ppl. a.|-taɪpt|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
a. lit. Cast in the form of, or prepared for printing by means of, stereotype. rare.
1820T. Hodgson Ess. Stereotype Printing 57 Hoffmann..announced a stereotyped (or in his phrase a polytyped) book..which appeared in 1787. Ibid. 95 They engaged to sell stereotyped plates.
b. Usually fig. Fixed or perpetuated in an unchanging form. (Most commonly of phrases or formulas of speech, or the like; rarely of persons.) Also spec. in Psychol. (see quot. 1934).
1849Knife & Fork 29 That common, every-day love, that contents itself with stereotyped epithets of endearment. 1854Mrs. Gaskell North & S. xii, Uttering..stereotyped commonplaces. 1862Thackeray Philip iii, Phil's father..entered the dining-room..with his stereotyped smile. 1900A. Church & Peterson Nervous & Mental Dis. (ed. 2) 663 A single motion of the arm or body may be reiterated for hours (stereotyped movements). 1912Throne 7 Aug. 213/3 The stereotyped business man who thinks a successful commercial career must begin with the sweeping out of a draper's shop. 1934H. C. Warren Dict. Psychol. 262/2 Stereotyped (responses), characterizing certain responses which are always performed in substantially the same manner. 1950T. Wiesengrund-Adorno et al. Authoritarian Personality iv. xvi. 627 He..personalizes his own stereotyped hostility. 1957[see consummatory a. 2]. 1968A. Storr Human Aggression ii. 11 This mechanism is easily set off, and, like other emotional responses, it is stereotyped and, in this sense, ‘instinctive’.
c. Zool. Of an animal's action or behaviour: repeated though serving no obvious purpose.
1934E. S. Russell Behaviour of Animals i. 8 Their [sc. chaffinches’] behaviour is mainly instinctive, independent of previous experience, and to a considerable extent stereotyped and invariable. 1950G. Sircom tr. Hediger's Wild Animals in Captivity viii. 88 M. Holtzapfel..was able..to remove a long standing stereotyped movement in an armadillo..kept on a slippery and therefore unbiological floor, by providing a layer of earth ten inches deep. 1970R. A. & B. M. Maier Compar. Animal Behavior xvii. 356 Stereotyped movements displayed during courtship can evolve out of general movement patterns.
Hence ˈstereotypedness, the quality or state of being stereotyped.
1977Spare Rib June 37/1 The visual equivalents tend to have a journalistic stereotypedness about them. 1979Trans. Philol. Soc. 140 We also learn a good deal about..live Old Persian speech, many features of which, owing to the wretchedly small number of OP inscriptions and the stereotypedness of most of them, have remained hitherto well beyond our reach. |