compartmentalization

Definition

Division into compartments or parts.

Etymology

From compartmentalize + -ation.

Example Sentences

• "In reality, the multidimensionality of language contact in multilingual environments ensures no such neat compartmentalisation."
• "Apart from language, the most sophisticated thing that almost all human beings do every day is compartmentalisation: the selective blocking-out of bad events, whether current or historic, whether personal or global."