pathologize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.38 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek πάσχω (páskhō)der. Ancient Greek πᾰ́θος (pắthos) Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *lóǵos Proto-Hellenic *lógos Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor. Latin -logialbor. French -logie French pathologiebor. English pathology Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English pathologize From pathology + -ize.