pathologize

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

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

Similar words

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Often followed by

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Word family

pathologized pathologizes pathologizing