typecasting

See also: type casting

English

Verb

typecasting

  1. present participle and gerund of typecast

Noun

typecasting (countable and uncountable, plural typecastings)

  1. The process by which a person is typecast, or taken to be a particular stereotype.
    • 2011, Emma LaRocque, When the Other is Me: Native Resistance Discourse, 1850-1990, page 142:
      Similar in consequence to the ethnological typecastings, these ideologically driven political readings produce a lumping effect.

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