单词 | stereotyped |
释义 | stereotypedadj. a. literal. Cast in the form of, or prepared for printing by means of, stereotype. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > type founding > [adjective] > cast > in form of stereotype stereotyped1820 1820 T. Hodgson Ess. Stereotype Printing 57 Hoffmann..announced a stereotyped (or in his phrase a polytyped) book..which appeared in 1787. 1820 T. Hodgson Ess. Stereotype Printing 95 They engaged to sell stereotyped plates. b. Usually figurative. Fixed or perpetuated in an unchanging form. (Most commonly of phrases or formulas of speech, or the like; rarely of persons.) Also spec. in Psychology (see quot. 1934). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or ordinary > commonplace > habitually used or stock standing1600 standard1724 stock1738 stereotype1824 stereotyped1849 stereotypic1884 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective] > dull > stale or mechanical vinnied1563 overworn1578 seta1616 stock1738 hackneyed1747 commonplace1801 stereotype1824 stereotyped1849 hacky1862 stereotypic1884 cliché1895 cliché-ridden1920 clichéd1925 1849 Knife & Fork 29 That common, every-day love, that contents itself with stereotyped epithets of endearment. 1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South I. xii. 147 Uttering..stereotyped commonplaces. 1862 W. M. Thackeray Adventures of Philip I. iii. 35 Phil's father..entered the dining-room..with his stereotyped smile. 1900 A. Church & F. Peterson Nervous & Mental Dis. (ed. 2) 663 A single motion of the arm or body may be reiterated for hours (stereotyped movements). 1912 Throne 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. 1934 H. C. Warren Dict. Psychol. 262/2 Stereotyped (responses), characterizing certain responses which are always performed in substantially the same manner. 1950 T. Wiesengrund-Adorno et al. Authoritarian Personality iv. xvi. 627 He..personalizes his own stereotyped hostility. 1957 New Biol. 24 122 The variable introductory phase which leads to a stereotyped response, or consummatory act, or to a consummatory situation, is called appetitive behaviour. 1968 A. 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. Zoology. Of an animal's action or behaviour: repeated though serving no obvious purpose. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [adjective] > ritualized stereotyped1934 the mind > mental capacity > psychology > behaviourism > theories of motivation > stereotypical behaviour > [adjective] stereotyped1934 stereotypical1949 1934 E. 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. 1950 G. Sircom tr. H. Hediger 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. 1970 R. A. Maier & B. M. Maier Compar. Animal Behavior xvii. 356 Stereotyped movements displayed during courtship can evolve out of general movement patterns. Derivatives ˈstereotypedness n. the quality or state of being stereotyped. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > uniformity > stereotype > [noun] > state of being stereotypedness1977 1977 Spare Rib June 37/1 The visual equivalents tend to have a journalistic stereotypedness about them. 1979 Trans. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1820 |
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