different between scapegoat vs stereotype

English

Etymology

From scape +? goat; coined by Tyndale, interpreting Biblical Hebrew ????????? (“azazél”) (Leviticus 16:8, 10, 26), from an interpretation as coming from ???? (ez, “goat”) and ????? (ozél, “escapes”). First attested 1530.

Pronunciation

• (Canada, US) IPA^(key): /?ske?p??o?t/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ske?p????t/

Noun

scapegoat (plural scapegoats)

1. In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book II, ch 5

     alluding herein unto the heart of man and the precious bloud of our Saviour, who was typified by the Goat that was slain, and the scape-Goat in the Wilderness

2. Someone punished for the error or errors of someone else.

   He is making me a scapegoat.

   • 1834, Thomas Babington Macaulay, "William Pitt, Earl of Chatham" [1]

     The new Secretary of State had been long sick of the perfidy and levity of the First Lord of the Treasury, and began to fear that he might be made a scapegoat to save the old intriguer who, imbecile as he seemed, never wanted dexterity where danger was to be avoided.

Synonyms

• (someone punished for someone else's error(s)): fall guy, patsy, whipping boy; see also Thesaurus:scapegoat

Translations

Verb

scapegoat (third-person singular simple present scapegoats, present participle scapegoating, simple past and past participle scapegoated)

1. (transitive) To punish someone for the error or errors of someone else; to make a scapegoat of.
   • 1975, Richard M. Harris, Adam Kendon, Mary Ritchie Key, Organization of Behavior in Face-to-face Interaction, p66

     They had been used for centuries to justify or rationalize the behavior of that status and conversely to scapegoat and blame some other category of people.
2. (transitive) To blame something for the problems of a given society without evidence to back up the claim.

Translations

Related terms

• scapegoater
• scapegoating (noun)
• scapegoatism

See also

• blame Canada
• blameshift
• escape
• look for a dog to kick
• stool pigeon, stoolie
• whipping boy

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French stéréotype. Printing sense is from 1817, the “conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image” sense is recorded from 1922 in Walter Lippmann's book Public Opinion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?.?i.??ta?p/, /?st??.?i.??ta?p/

Noun

stereotype (countable and uncountable, plural stereotypes)

1. A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person).

   Synonyms: cliché, platitude

2. (psychology) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
3. (printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.

   Synonym: cliché

4. (software engineering) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language, allowing a new element to be derived from an existing one with added specializations.

Derived terms

• stereotypic
• stereotypical

Translations

Verb

stereotype (third-person singular simple present stereotypes, present participle stereotyping, simple past and past participle stereotyped)

1. (transitive) To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
2. (transitive, printing) To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.

3. (transitive, printing) To print from a stereotype.
4. (transitive, figuratively) To make firm or permanent; to fix.
   • 1887, George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, Scotland as it was and as it is

     Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions.

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References

Swedish

Adjective

stereotype

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of stereotyp.