stereotypy
/ˈstɛri.əˌtaɪpi/
stereotypy noun: excessive repetition, especially of meaningless gestures.
Noun
stereotypy (countable and uncountable, plural stereotypies)
- Excessive repetition, especially of meaningless gestures.
- Coordinate term: stimming
- Medical culture constrains stimming through strict clinical designations and pathologizing definitions, referring to it as stereotypies or "self-stimulatory behaviours." Autistic people, however, often define stimming more broadly as repetitive sensory practices used to regulate emotional states...2021, Erin Felepchuk, “Stimming, Improvisation, and COVID-19: (Re)negotiating Autistic Sensory Regulation During a Pandemic”, in Disability Studies Quarterly, volume 41, number 3, archived from the...
- The process of making stereotype plates and printing from them.
Forms of stereotypy
| plural | stereotypies |
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Origin of stereotypy
Borrowed from French stéréotypie, from stéréotype + -ie. By surface analysis, stereotype + -y (suffix forming abstract nouns).
Questions about stereotypy
- What does stereotypy mean?
- Stereotypy means excessive repetition, especially of meaningless gestures.
- What part of speech is stereotypy?
- Stereotypy is a noun.
- How do you pronounce stereotypy?
- Stereotypy is pronounced /ˈstɛri.əˌtaɪpi/.
- What is the plural of stereotypy?
- The plural of stereotypy is stereotypies.
Words near stereotypy in the dictionary
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