Stereotype vs Categorize - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between stereotype and categorize

is that stereotype is while categorize is to assign a category; to divide into classes.

(wikipedia stereotype)

(en noun)

A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

(printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.

(psychology) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.

(UML) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language

(stereotyp)

To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.

To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.

to stereotype the Bible

To print from a stereotype.

(figurative) To make firm or permanent; to fix.

* Duke of Argyll (1887)

Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions.

* categorise (non-Oxford British spelling)

(categoriz)

To assign a category; to divide into classes.

First, categorize incoming messages according to the needed actions.

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