pathologize
verb
pa·thol·o·gize
pə-ˈthä-lə-ˌjīz 
pathologized; pathologizing
: to view or characterize as medically or psychologically abnormal
natural hormonal shifts have been pathologized—
Joyce C. Mills
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These three words served both to definitively pathologize her and to place her mental health on an ascending scale, one that coincidentally meant that mine and our other brother’s childhood—being cared for by this troubled if charismatic woman—was also, in his opinion, necessarily . . .
—Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
That meant pathologizing drug use, Regina Davis Moss, a public health scholar and president of In Our Own Voice, a reproductive justice organization, tells Rolling Stone.
—Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2024
The two were easy scapegoats in a media culture and news environment that often pathologized Black masculinity as deviant and dangerous.
—Brandon Harris, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2024
Soufan, however, passes over almost all discussion of religion and tends to pathologize religious sentiment in glib tones.
—Graeme Wood, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
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Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
That meant pathologizing drug use, Regina Davis Moss, a public health scholar and president of In Our Own Voice, a reproductive justice organization, tells Rolling Stone.
—Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2024
The two were easy scapegoats in a media culture and news environment that often pathologized Black masculinity as deviant and dangerous.
—Brandon Harris, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2024
Soufan, however, passes over almost all discussion of religion and tends to pathologize religious sentiment in glib tones.
—Graeme Wood, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
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pathologize
transitive verb
pa·thol·o·gize
variants
or chiefly British pathologise
-ˌjīz
pathologized or chiefly British pathologised; pathologizing or chiefly British pathologising
: to view or characterize as medically or psychologically abnormal
natural hormonal shifts have been pathologized—Joyce C. Mills
Joyce C. Millspathologizing childhood behavior—Ruth Shalit
Ruth Shalit
pathologization
noun
or chiefly British pathologisation
pə-ˌthäl-ə-jə-ˈzā-shən
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