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- noun The act, process, or result of
overcategorizing .
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"overcategorization" guideline discourages categorizing people by personal opinions on certain subjects.
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"overcategorization" guideline discourages categorizing people by personal opinions on certain subjects.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Breithaupt 2009
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"overcategorization" guideline discourages categorizing people by personal opinions on certain subjects.
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"overcategorization" guideline discourages categorizing people by personal opinions on certain subjects.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Jinxmchue 2009
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Even those are vague to me, though, and the danger of overcategorization - as I've long sensed as a problem in the realm of music - is just as relevant if not more so in the world of the sociopolitical.
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