Entertainment / Literature / Stereotype: A character who is so ordinary or unoriginal that the character seems like an oversimplified representation of a type, gender, class, religious group, or occupation. Cf. Stock character, below.
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Science / Psychiatry / Stereotyped Movements: Repetitive, seemingly driven, and nonfunctional motor behavior (e.g., hand shaking or waving, body rocking, head banging, mouthing of objects, self-biting, picking at skin or body orifices, hitting on MORE
Science / Psychiatry / Catatonic Behaviour: Marked motor abnormalities including motor immobility (i.e., catalepsy or stupor), certain types of excessive motor activity (apparently purposeless agitation not influenced by external stimuli), extr MORE
Science / Psychiatry / Verbigeration: Stereotyped and seemingly meaningless repetition of words or sentences. MORE
Science / Psychiatry / Tic: An involuntary, sudden, rapid, recurrent, nonrhythmic, stereotyped motor movement or vocalization. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Commedia Dellarte: A genre of Italian farce from the sixteenth-century characterized by stock characters, stock situations, and spontaneous dialogue. Typically, the plot is an intrigue plot and it involves a soubrette w MORE