compartmentalisation

English Thesaurus

1. the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type (noun.act)

hypernym	:	grouping,
definition	:	the activity of putting things together in groups (noun.act)

hyponym	:	indexing,
definition	:	the act of classifying and providing an index in order to make items easier to retrieve (noun.act)

hyponym	:	reclassification,
definition	:	classifying something again (usually in a new category) (noun.act)

hyponym	:	relegation,
definition	:	the act of assigning (someone or something) to a particular class or category (noun.act)

hyponym	:	stratification,
definition	:	the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata (noun.act)

hyponym	:	taxonomy,
definition	:	practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships (noun.act)

hyponym	:	typology,
definition	:	classification according to general type (noun.act)

2. a mild state of dissociation (noun.state)

hypernym	:	disassociation, dissociation,
definition	:	a state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently (noun.state)

3. the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type (noun.act)

derivation	:	compartmentalise, compartmentalize, cut up,
definition	:	separate into isolated compartments or categories (verb.change)

derivation	:	assort, class, classify, separate, sort, sort out,
definition	:	arrange or order by classes or categories (verb.cognition)

derivation	:	categorise, categorize,
definition	:	place into or assign to a category (verb.cognition)

derivation	:	classify, relegate,
definition	:	assign to a class or kind (verb.cognition)

4. a mild state of dissociation (noun.state)

derivation	:	compartmentalise, compartmentalize, cut up,
definition	:	separate into isolated compartments or categories (verb.change)

5. the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type (noun.act)

derivation	:	compartmentalise, compartmentalize, cut up,
definition	:	separate into isolated compartments or categories (verb.change)

derivation	:	assort, class, classify, separate, sort, sort out,
definition	:	arrange or order by classes or categories (verb.cognition)

derivation	:	categorise, categorize,
definition	:	place into or assign to a category (verb.cognition)

derivation	:	classify, relegate,
definition	:	assign to a class or kind (verb.cognition)

6. a mild state of dissociation (noun.state)

derivation	:	compartmentalise, compartmentalize, cut up,
definition	:	separate into isolated compartments or categories (verb.change)