compartmentalisation

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Noun	1.	compartmentalisation - a mild state of dissociation compartmentalization disassociation, dissociation - a state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently
	2.	compartmentalisation - the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type classification, compartmentalization, assortment, categorisation, categorization grouping - the activity of putting things together in groups indexing - the act of classifying and providing an index in order to make items easier to retrieve reclassification - classifying something again (usually in a new category) relegation - the act of assigning (someone or something) to a particular class or category stratification - the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata taxonomy - practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships typology - classification according to general type