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Noun: compartmentalization
  1. A mild state of dissociation
    - compartmentalisation [Brit]
     
  2. The act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
    - categorization, categorisation [Brit], classification, compartmentalisation [Brit], assortment

Derived forms: compartmentalizations

See also: compartmentalize

Type of: disassociation, dissociation, grouping

Encyclopedia: Compartmentalization