typological

adjective

ty·po·log·i·cal ˌtī-pə-ˈlä-ji-kəl

: of or relating to typology or types

typologically

ˌtī-pə-ˈlä-ji-k(ə-)lē

adverb

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There have been lots of efforts since Charles Darwin’s time to fashion the typological and static concept of race into an evolutionary concept. —

Alan Goodman, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2020 Species are a typological concept, but usually as a pure categorical typology the class is useless. —

Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2012 Regardless of whether this level of substructure is of note of not, your own work on migrations, admixtures and waves of advance depicts patterns of demographic and genetic interconnectedness, and so refutes typological conceptions of race. —

Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2012 Tolkien succeeded in creating a mythic world, one that has now grown vast enough through acts of typological repetition and imitation to conquer television, too. —

Jo Livingstone, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2022 Scholars call this kind of relationship typological. —

Jo Livingstone, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2022