Archetype vs. Stereotype

Archetypenoun

An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned; a prototype.

Archetypenoun

An ideal example of something; a quintessence.

Archetypenoun

(literature) A character, object, or story that is based on a known character, object, or story.

Archetypenoun

(psychology) According to Swiss psychologist Carl Jung: a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity.

Archetypenoun

(textual criticism) A original manuscript of a text from which all further copies derive.

Archetypeverb

To depict as, model using, or otherwise associate an object or subject with an archetype.

Archetypenoun

The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed.

Archetypenoun

The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted.

Archetypenoun

The plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype.

Archetypenoun

an original model on which something is patterned

Archetypenoun

a very typical example of a certain person or thing

Archetypenoun

an original which has been imitated; a prototype

Archetypenoun

(in Jungian theory) a primitive mental image inherited from the earliest human ancestors, and supposed to be present in the collective unconscious.

Archetypenoun

a recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology

Archetype

The concept of an archetype (; from Greek: ἄρχω, árkhō, 'to begin' + τῠ́πος, túpos, 'sort, type') appears in areas relating to behavior, historical psychology, and literary analysis. An archetype can be: a statement, pattern of behavior, prototype, form, or a main model that other statements, patterns of behavior, and objects copy, emulate, or into.

Stereotypenoun

A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person).

Stereotypenoun

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

Stereotypenoun

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

Stereotypenoun

An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.

Stereotypeverb

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

Stereotypeverb

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

Stereotypeverb

(transitive) To print from a stereotype.

Stereotypeverb

To make firm or permanent; to fix.

Stereotypenoun

A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with type-metal face, used for printing.

Stereotypenoun

The art or process of making such plates, or of executing work by means of them.

Stereotypeverb

To prepare for printing in stereotype; to make the stereotype plates of; as, to stereotype the Bible.

Stereotypeverb

Fig.: To make firm or permanent; to fix.

Stereotypenoun

a conventional or formulaic conception or image;

Stereotypeverb

treat or classify according to a mental stereotype;

Stereotypenoun

a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing

Stereotypenoun

a person or thing that conforms to a widely held but oversimplified image of the class or type to which they belong

Stereotypenoun

a relief printing plate cast in a mould made from composed type or an original plate.

Stereotypeverb

view or represent as a stereotype

Stereotype

In social psychology, a stereotype is a generalized belief about a particular category of people. It is an expectation that people might have about every person of a particular group.