stigmatize
Origin of stigmatize
1- Also especially British, stig·ma·tise .
Other words from stigmatize
- stig·ma·ti·za·tion, noun
- stig·ma·tiz·er, noun
- de·stig·ma·tize, verb (used with object), de·stig·ma·tized, de·stig·ma·tiz·ing.
- un·stig·ma·tized, adjective
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How to use stigmatize in a sentence
This finding suggests that child-free individuals may be stigmatized in the United States.
Far More Adults Don’t Want Children Than Previously Thought | LGBTQ-Editor | July 12, 2021 | No Straight NewsThere are some real cultural differences in terms of acceptance of self-care, and stigmatizing about fatigue.
Her childhood seeded an understanding of the women’s body, a conversation that can be stigmatized in many immigrant households.
Loom spins up a pregnancy and postpartum education program | Natasha Mascarenhas | June 25, 2021 | TechCrunchEither way, not being able to get your partner pregnant has been stigmatized for millennia, with studies showing that in half of the cases in which couples can’t conceive, it’s a result of male infertility.
Many incorporated these stigmatizing experiences into how they felt about themselves.
Weight Stigma Is A Burden Around The World – And Has Negative Consequences Everywhere | LGBTQ-Editor | June 7, 2021 | No Straight News
(These kind of comparisons, as the atheist writer Chris Stedman has noted, help stigmatize mental illness).
The Midichlorians Made Me Do It: Can Microbes Explain Religion? | Michael Schulson | August 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI want to de-stigmatize this and get people access to this industry from an educational standpoint.
We would stigmatize anyone who invested, in any way, in any of these banks.
Michael Lewis Interviews Himself: Boycott the Banks! | Michael Lewis | April 17, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTYet he forebore to specify his injuries; saying, that to name them, would be to stigmatize the whole human race.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4 | Jane PorterAnd it will be your fault and your crime if it ever returns,—a crime for which history will stigmatize you forever.
But naturally Mrs. Cleveland was shocked and outraged, and I made haste to stigmatize it as a lie out of whole cloth.
Marse Henry (Vol. 2) | Henry WattersonWhat term is strong enough to stigmatize such suicidal folly?
Let society stigmatize you, let it stamp its enmity upon you, but seek God's precepts.
British Dictionary definitions for stigmatize
stigmatise
/ (ˈstɪɡməˌtaɪz) /
to mark out or describe (as something bad)
to mark with a stigma or stigmata
Derived forms of stigmatize
- stigmatization or stigmatisation, noun
- stigmatizer or stigmatiser, noun
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