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Stereotype vs Demonize - What's the difference?

stereotype | demonize |

As verbs the difference between stereotype and demonize

is that stereotype is while demonize is (american spelling) to turn into a demon.

stereotype

English

(wikipedia stereotype)

Noun

(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

    • Verb

    (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.

    See also

    * stereotypic * stereotypical ----

    demonize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * daemonise (UK) * daemonize (chiefly UK) * (rare) * demonise (UK)

    Verb

    (demoniz)
  • (American spelling) To turn into a demon.
  • (American spelling) To describe or represent as evil or diabolic.