typology
Study of categories
Typology is the study or system of classifying things into types based on shared characteristics.
In theology, it refers to interpreting Old Testament events as prefiguring the New Testament.
In archaeology and linguistics, typologies organize artifacts or languages by formal features: a typology of Bronze Age pottery, a typology of clause structures.
The word suggests systematic categorization rather than casual grouping.
Science of categorical arrangement
- categorizationArranging into groups
- systematicsScience of classifying organisms
- nomenclatureSystem of specialized terms
- hierarchyRanked authority structure
phylogeny · cladistics · binomial · genus · species · family · order · class
Nine-pointed personality framework
- MBTIPsychological typing system
- introvertOne who turns inward
- extrovertOne who seeks company
- temperamentInborn behavioral nature
trait · dimension · Big Five · sanguine · choleric · melancholic · phlegmatic · Jung
One admired for courage
- mentorTrusted wisdom-giving advisor
- tricksterCunning deceiver in myth
- outlawFugitive from justice
- magicianPerformer of illusions
lover · jester · caregiver · ruler · creator · innocent · sage · explorer
Concerning form or shape
- isolatingSetting apart from contact
- agglutinativeMorphemes chained, roots intact
- analyticExamining by decomposition
- syntheticProduced artificially, not natural
inflectional · phonological · syntactic · Greenberg · language families · comparative · structural
Architectural room arrangement
- layoutSpatial arrangement of elements
- vernacularEveryday regional speech
- dwellingPlace of residence
- buildingEnclosed roofed structure
residential · spatial · form · function · regional · traditional · domestic · ecclesiastical
taxonomy
Science of categorical arrangement
- categorizationArranging into groups
- systematicsScience of classifying organisms
- nomenclatureSystem of specialized terms
hierarchy · phylogeny · cladistics · binomial · genus · species · family · order · class · phylum
enneagram
Nine-pointed personality framework
temperament · trait · dimension · Big Five · sanguine · choleric · melancholic · phlegmatic · Jung · cognitive
hero
One admired for courage
magician · lover · jester · caregiver · ruler · creator · innocent · sage · explorer · rebel
morphological
Concerning form or shape
- isolatingSetting apart from contact
- agglutinativeMorphemes chained, roots intact
- analyticExamining by decomposition
synthetic · inflectional · phonological · syntactic · Greenberg · language families · comparative · structural
floor plan
Architectural room arrangement
- layoutSpatial arrangement of elements
- vernacularEveryday regional speech
- dwellingPlace of residence
building · residential · spatial · form · function · regional · traditional · domestic · ecclesiastical · structural
- classificationcategory, classification, group, cataloging, grouping
- classificationsclassified, hierarchical, class, unclassified, categorical
- allegoryAnimal Farm, Narnia, The Little Prince, religious allegory, political allegory
- classification termsbinary, hierarchical, kinds, groups, classes
- architecture theoryformalism, functionalism, postmodernism, contextualism, deconstructivism
- biblical studieshistorical criticism, scriptural study, biblical narratives, Hebrew Bible, textual analysis
typologychaos
Complete disorder and confusion
randomness · disorder · disorganization · jumble · hodgepodge
typologycase study
Researched particular instance
particularism · nominalism · singularity · instance · token
- racial typologyCategorizing humans by perceived ancestry