Typology

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"Typology" literally means the study of types. More specifically, it may refer to:

• Typology (anthropology), division of culture by races
• Typology (archaeology), classification of things according to their characteristics
• Typology (theology), in Christian theology the interpretation of some characters and stories in the Old Testament as allegories foreshadowing the New Testament
• Linguistic typology, study and classification of languages according to their structural features
• Morphological typology, in linguistics, a method of classifying languages
• Typology, in psychology, a model of personality types (see Carl Jung, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Enneagram of Personality)

[edit] See also

• Type
• Typification

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