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Stereotype vs Profiling - What's the difference?

stereotype | profiling |

As verbs the difference between stereotype and profiling

is that stereotype is while profiling is .

As a noun profiling is

the forensic science of constructing an outline of a person's individual characteristics.

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 ----

    profiling

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The forensic science of constructing an outline of a person's individual characteristics.
  • (military, historical) In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points.
  • Derived terms

    * DNA profiling * psychological profiling * racial profiling

    Verb

    (head)