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Synonyms for hierarchy

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for hierarchy

a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system

the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body

Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
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In fact, this silence is a result of generosity, "the generosity not to choose between loves, not to privilege, not to hierarchize, not to exclude".
This difference in access to mobility separates and hierarchizes the inhabitants on either side of the border.
Chambers characterizes a digressive text, which he terms "loiterature," as one that does not allow the reader to categorize or hierarchize elements of the narrative because the text is lacking distinctive markers such as the center and the periphery.
Normal and abnormal are established, measured, and then used to hierarchize the various individuals.
Most are criticized for slyly attempting to "rise above and surpass other systems" (53) or "hierarchize" (62).
Frequently, we may hierarchize them on the basis of knowledge: although the text is addressed to two or more audiences, only one knows all that the other knows as well as what it alone is able to discern.
Observers in this model then learn to develop files, systems of marking and classifying, and the integrated accountancy of individual records in order to compare, differentiate, hierarchize, homogenize and exclude.
The problem is not, therefore, suppressing one or two of the systems of morality in the name of a third, in opposition to fanatics of all kinds, but knowing how to link together and hierarchize all three.
Music discourse will no longer serve to hierarchize and control experience, but to allow us to enrich our experiences by sharing memory with others.