Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun compartmentalisation

2 senses of compartmentalisation

Sense 1
compartmentalization, compartmentalisation -- (a mild state of dissociation)
       => dissociation, disassociation -- (a state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently)

Sense 2
categorization, categorisation, classification, compartmentalization, compartmentalisation, assortment -- (the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type)
       => grouping -- (the activity of putting things together in groups)