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compartmentalism

compartmentalism noun: a tendency to compartmentalize, or keep things separate.

Noun

compartmentalism (uncountable)

  1. A tendency to compartmentalize, or keep things separate
    • They were also an important means of promoting contact between MOs working in different units, and so combating the problem of compartmentalism by facilitating exchanges of information on the latest medical techniques […]2013, Ian R. Whitehead, Doctors in the Great War

Origin of compartmentalism

From compartmental + -ism.

Questions about compartmentalism

What does compartmentalism mean?
Compartmentalism means a tendency to compartmentalize, or keep things separate.
What part of speech is compartmentalism?
Compartmentalism is a noun.

Words near compartmentalism in the dictionary

  1. compartmentalisations
  2. compartmentalise
  3. compartmentalised
  4. compartmentalises
  5. compartmentalising
  6. compartmentalism
  7. compartmentalist
  8. compartmentalists
  9. compartmentalizable
  10. compartmentalization
  11. compartmentalizations

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