Meaning

1 senses

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

    Near-synonym: medicalize

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

    pathologisieren

Examples

1 sentences

  1. That's a pathologizing term.

    deDas ist ein pathologisierender Begriff. — mhr · CC BY 2.0 FR

    Miktsoanit · Tatoeba · CC0 · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Translations

4 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease:

Forms

pathologizes, pathologizing, pathologized, pathologized
Base formpathologize · to pathologize
3rd person singularpathologizes
Present participlepathologizing
Past simplepathologized
Past participlepathologized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypathologize
he, she, itpathologizes

Past simpleLesson

all personspathologized

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave pathologized
he, she, ithas pathologized

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill pathologize

Synonyms

1 synonyms
medicalize

Word family

5 related words
Deriveddepathologizeoverpathologizepathologizationrepathologizeunpathologized

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
pathogenpathologicalpathologicallypathologistpathologypathosC1pathwaypatienceB1
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