Stereotype

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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Stereotyped Movements

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

Catatonic Behaviour

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

Verbigeration

Science / Psychiatry / Verbigeration: Stereotyped and seemingly meaningless repetition of words or sentences. MORE

Tic

Science / Psychiatry / Tic: An involuntary, sudden, rapid, recurrent, nonrhythmic, stereotyped motor movement or vocalization. MORE

Commedia Dellarte

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

Alogia

Science / Psychiatry / Alogia: An impoverishment in thinking that is inferred from observing speech and language behavior. There may be brief and concrete replies to questions and restriction in the amount of spontaneous speech (p MORE