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Definition of Pigeonholing
1. Noun. A system for classifying things into groups.
Definition of Pigeonholing
1. Verb. (present participle of pigeonhole) ¹
2. Noun. the classification of disparate entities into categories, not always for the right reason ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pigeonholing
1. pigeonhole [v] - See also: pigeonhole
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pigeonholing
Literary usage of Pigeonholing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Educational Research by American Educational Research Association (1921)
"There are far too many different occupations and the specific abilities of
individual pupils are much too various to permit of accurate "pigeonholing" ..."
2. Viagens ethnographicas sul americanas: Argentina by Charmian London, Online Archive of California, Simoens da Silva (1921)
"However, they persisted in pigeonholing it as essentially'' a man's book—a book
women would not care for;" and it was with loud glee that Jack later on ..."
3. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"... philosophizing consists only in adopting one or more root ideas, and pigeonholing
in them all the facts of life and mind that fall within a narrow ken. ..."
4. The Twentieth Century by Caroline Farrar Ware (1908)
"No pigeonholing genius in Whitehall must be permitted to nullify their work, as
passed upon by a competent live man on the spot, for whom it will be vitally ..."
5. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1905)
"In fact, comprehension is nothing but an adequate description of things and a
pigeonholing of each correctly under its proper category. ..."
6. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"By the way, is not this just another instance of that mania for pigeonholing
human tastes and playing them off against one another? ..."
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