Pathologize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Pathologize is a verb meaning (transitive) To characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease.
Meaning
(transitive) To characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease.
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.
My automatic reaction was to deal with the anxiety he evoked in me by pathologizing him as paranoid and obsessive compulsive.
Word Forms
- pathologizes
- pathologizing
- pathologized
- pathologise
Synonyms for pathologize
Depending on context, synonyms include medicalize.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pathologise, lesionalize, chronify, overdiagnose, diagnosis, keloid.
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