Stereotypy
//ˈstɛri.əˌtaɪpi// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Excessive repetition, especially of meaningless gestures. countable
"Coordinate term: stimming"
- 2 The process of making stereotype plates and printing from them. uncountable
Example
More examples"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, to cope with external sensory stimuli, or for purposes of self-expression."
Etymology
Borrowed from French stéréotypie, from stéréotype + -ie. By surface analysis, stereotype + -y (suffix forming abstract nouns).
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