Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The act or process of dividing a complex task or structure into smaller, often more manageable pieces.
- n. software The act of dividing complex code into libraries with common functionality to help make the process of programming more manageable and reusable.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
- n. a mild state of dissociation
Etymologies
- compartmentalize + -ation (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This compartmentalization is a unique feature of mainstream U.S. culture: Don't mix personal and work issues; my family is separate from my friends; my tennis friends do not necessarily have to know my classical music friends, and so on.”
“The intensity of my career coupled with my self-imposed mental compartmentalization is protection for me.”
“One of the noisome results of such compartmentalization is that relationship "experts" warn us incessantly, "If you have to talk, see a therapist.”
“PODESTA: I've never understood the word compartmentalization, quite honestly.”
“And the further to the right on the scale, the less compartmentalization is possible between the supposed religious and non-religious aspects of one’s life.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Thought on American Jewish Demography
“We no longer operate largely on the principle of compartmentalization, that is, sharing information based on "need to know.”
The Wall Street Journal: How 9/11 Transformed the Intelligence Community
“Practicing methodological naturalism and then believing in superstition is called compartmentalization, not intellectual consistency.”
“In a very real way “symbolic” refers to integration and “diabolic” refers to compartmentalization.”
“Its most basic mechanism is that psychological trick we have called compartmentalization.”
“ compartmentalization, which is not the process by any means.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘compartmentalization’.
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20-Letter BigWords
A list of words that each contain twenty (20) letters, beginning with compartmentalization.
Writers of English fond of concise phrases and apt one-syllable Anglo-Saxon nouns and verbs ...compartmentalization, antiparliamentarians, ultramicroscopically, contradistinguishing, radiotelegraphically, psychopathologically, electrocardiographic, overapprehensiveness, hydrotherapeuticians, neurophysiologically, incomprehensibleness, microminiaturization and 183 more...
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EN - longest (>15 char) words
contraindications, contradistinction, conventionalising, contextualisation, consubstantiation, constitutionality, constitutionalism, conscientiousness, congregationalist, contemporaneously, contextualization, comprehensibility and 634 more...
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A Galimafrée of Plant Anatomy & Morph...
A hodgepodge, jumble, jambalaya, *gallimaufry, circus and tent revival of plant anatomy and morphology terms and phrases - its a big tent, and no tickets are required.
*array, collecti...naked bud, leaf blade, brochidodromous, serrate, cork cambium, rhizomatous, flower stalk, deciduous sepal, petal, whorl, nectar gland, stamen and 1348 more...
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words-for-apocalipstick
all your words are belong to me.
sybaritic, cacography, scatterbrain, extravaganza, fenestra, kaleidophone, machination, mudpuppy, saturnalia, Bacchanalia, ersatz, fictile and 58 more...
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The Spectacle
DISTRACT, STARE, CONSUME
(repeat)gongoozler, television, sporting events, blockbuster, alienation, situationist, technocapitalism, media extravaganza, sex scandal, hypnotic behavior, fantastic visions, prime time and 164 more...
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Noesis
Mind or Mind Altering
example: psychotomimetic
( _mark, personal list, randomness )noetic, entheogen, psychonautics, infinite, bewilderment, mystification, stupefication, enhanced, altered, perception, simulation, network and 204 more...
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seven syllables
transdifferentiation, parthenogenetically, monocotyledonous, sesquicentennial, quasiperiodically, invariability, indestructibility, catazonasulculate, pseudo-etymology, paraetymology, triskaidekaphobia, epidemiology and 197 more...
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gleaned words
found words, that haven't found their proper place yet.
juggernaut, panopticon, superfluous, verfremdung, aleatory, googlewhack, palimpsest, petrosomatoglyph, epibiont, solipsism, zugzwang, ubiquitous and 500 more...
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Psych
dissonance, aphasia, psychotic, schizoid, schizotypal, cognition, sublimation, oedipal, self-actualization, psychoanalysis, humanist, freudian and 51 more...
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