typecastings

Noun

typecasting (countable and uncountable, plural typecastings)

1. The process by which a person is typecast, or taken to be a particular stereotype.
   • Similar in consequence to the ethnological typecastings, these ideologically driven political readings produce a lumping effect.2011, Emma LaRocque, When the Other is Me: Native Resistance Discourse, 1850-1990, page 142
2. The act of typing out messages with a typewriter and posting images of them online.
   • Matt Cidoni, 16, of East Brunswick, N.J., keeps a picture of his favorite machine, a Royal No. 10, on his iPod Touch so he can show it off to friends. Online, he is a proud member of the "typosphere," a global community of typewriter geeks. Like many of them, he enjoys "typecasting," or tapping out...2011 March 31, Jessica Bruder, “The Digital Generation Rediscovers the Magic of Manual Typewriters”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...