Stereotype vs Conviction - What's the difference?
stereotype | conviction |
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
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 print from a stereotype.
(figurative) To make firm or permanent; to fix.
* Duke of Argyll (1887)
(countable) A firmly held belief.
(countable) A judgement of guilt in a court of law.
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(uncountable) The state of being found or proved guilty.
(uncountable) The state of being convinced.
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As a verb stereotype
is .As a noun conviction is
(countable) a firmly held belief.stereotype
English
(wikipedia stereotype)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(stereotyp)- to stereotype the Bible
- Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions.
See also
* stereotypic * stereotypical ----conviction
English
(wikipedia conviction)Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=He said Robins had not been in trouble with the law before and had no previous convictions . Jail would have an adverse effect on her and her three children as she was the main carer.}}
- The visitors were being pinned back by the end of the first half. Yet Gordon Strachan's side played with great conviction and always had a chance of springing a surprise when their opponents were so susceptible at the back.