stigmatize

• stigmatise (UK)

From Medieval Latin stigmatizo (“to brand”), from Ancient Greek στιγματίζω (stigmatízō, “to mark”), from στίγμα (stígma).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈstɪɡmətaɪz/

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stigmatize (third-person singular simple present stigmatizes, present participle stigmatizing, simple past and past participle stigmatized)

1. (transitive) To characterize as disgraceful or ignominious; to mark with a stigma or stigmata.

   Antonym: destigmatize

   • 1819-1820, Washington Irving, The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon:

     We stigmatize the Indians, also, as cowardly and treacherous, because they use stratagem in warfare in preference to open force; but in this they are fully justified by their rude code of honor.

   • 2010, Mark McClelland, “The 'Beautiful Boy' in Japanese Girls' Manga”, in Toni Johnson-Woods, editor, Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives, The Continuum International Publishing Group Inc, →ISBN, page 78:

     Helen Hardacre, in her study of discourses stigmatizing women who have had abortions, argues that there has been a marked rise in media interest in women's sexuality since the 1970s.

   • 2012, Daphne C. Watkins, Harold W. Neighbors, “Social Determinants of Depression and the Black Male Experience”, in Henrie M. Treadwell, Clare Xanthos, Kisha B. Holden, editors, Social Determinants of Health Among African-American Men, Jossey-Bass, published 2013, →ISBN, page 55:

     This chapter examines the social determinants of depression in black men because no other race-by-gender population group has been stigmatized as much as black men.

• destigmatize
• re-stigmatize
• stigmatization