COMPARTMENTALIZATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type

Synonyms:

assortment; categorisation; categorization; classification; compartmentalisation; compartmentalization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("compartmentalization" is a kind of...):

grouping (the activity of putting things together in groups)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "compartmentalization"):

indexing (the act of classifying and providing an index in order to make items easier to retrieve)

reclassification (classifying something again (usually in a new category))

relegation (the act of assigning (someone or something) to a particular class or category)

stratification (the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata)

taxonomy (practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships)

typology (classification according to general type)

Derivation:

compartmentalize (separate into isolated compartments or categories)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A mild state of dissociation

Synonyms:

compartmentalisation; compartmentalization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs