stereotype

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of STEREOTYPE

an idea or statement about all of the members of a group or all the instances of a situation <the noble savage was a stereotype that appealed to 18th-century intellectuals, who viewed European civilization as decadent and corrupt>

Synonyms concept, conception, generality, notion, stereotype

Related Words bromide, cliché (also cliche), commonplace, platitude, truism; adage, proverb, saw, saying; hypothesis, proposition, theory; oversimplification, simplification, simplism

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