Unscramble

s 1 t 1 e 1 r 1 e 1 o 1 t 1 y 4 p 3 e 1

10 letters · 15 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun a conventional or formulaic conception or image

verb treat or classify according to a mental stereotype

originBorrowed from French stéréotype (adjective), equivalent to stereo- + type. Printing sense is from 1817; the “conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image” sense is recorded from 1922 in Walter Lippmann’s book Public Opinion.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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