Meaning of pathologize | Babel Free

Definitions

To characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease.

transitive

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Examples

“Near-synonym: medicalize”

“Some childhood behavior has been pathologized as attention-deficit disorder.”

“Many pain patients have had doctors who pathologized them, told them their pain was unreal.”

“To pathologize China's industries as corrupt not only reeks of centuries-old Yellow Peril rhetoric but also fails to acknowledge the shortcomings of transnational regulations.”

“My automatic reaction was to deal with the anxiety he evoked in me by pathologizing him as paranoid and obsessive compulsive.”

“Their results showed that cisgenderist language is commonplace in professional communications between psychologists about children who self-defined their gender, that the most pathologizing language is found in literature by mental health professionals, and that those most closely tied to the most prolific author in the field through publication are most likely to use language that pathologizes and misgenders children.”

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