compartmentalisation

Noun
  1. A mild state of dissociation (synset 114440550)
    is a type of: disassociation, dissociation - a state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently
    same as: compartmentalization
  2. The act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type (synset 101014654)
    is a type of: grouping - the activity of putting things together in groups
    subtypes:
    • 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
    same as: assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalization

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