the act or process of making stereotype printing plates
2.
a tendency to think or act in rigid, repetitive, and often meaningless, patterns
stereotypy in American English
(ˈstɛriəˌtaɪpi; ˈstɪriəˌtaɪpi)
noun
1.
the process of making or printing from stereotype plates
2.
abnormal repetition of an action, speech phrase, etc., or abnormal sustained maintenance of a position or posture, as seen in some phases of schizophrenia