Destigmatize

Quick meaning: Destigmatize is a verb meaning (transitive) To remove the disgraceful or ignominious characterization; to remove stigma or stigmata.

Meaning

(transitive) To remove the disgraceful or ignominious characterization; to remove stigma or stigmata.

Example Sentences

The “untreated” part is important, because Dr. Clayton went on to become one of the leading voices for destigmatizing depression and suicide in America.

Before we can destigmatize suicide — assuming that is what we want to do — we must acknowledge that killing oneself is still an intensely stigmatized act.

Judy Rappaport's "The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing," about obsessive-compulsive disorder, brought this disorder out of the closet to the point where we've destigmatized it.

“All these companies now are trying to be hip and colorful and just really destigmatize these products,” said Leslie Schrock, an investor with several portfolio companies in the women’s health sector and the author of books on pregnancy and fertility.

Word Forms

• destigmatizes
• destigmatizing
• destigmatized
• destigmatise

Antonyms for destigmatize

Common opposites include stigmatize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include destigmatise, stigmatize, stigmatise, desanctify, deracialize, destain.

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