Defame vs Stigmatize - What's the difference?
defame | stigmatize |
To harm or diminish the reputation of.
To render infamous; to bring into disrepute.
* Dryden
To publish a libel about.
(archaic) To charge; to accuse.
* Rebecca is defamed of sorcery practised on the person of a noble knight.
To characterize as disgraceful or ignominious; to mark with a stigma or stigmata.
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* 2010 , Mark McClelland, "The 'Beautiful Boy' in Japanese Girls' Manga", in Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives (ed. Toni Johnson-Woods), The Continuum International Publishing Group Inc (2010), ISBN 9780826429377,
* 2012 , Daphne C. Watkins & Harold W. Neighbors, "Social Determinants of Depression and the Black Male Experience", in Social Determinants of Health Among African-American Men (eds. Henrie M. Treadwell, Clare Xanthos, & Kisha B. Holden), Jossey-Bass (2013), ISBN 9780470931103,
As verbs the difference between defame and stigmatize
is that defame is to harm or diminish the reputation of while stigmatize is to characterize as disgraceful or ignominious; to mark with a stigma or stigmata.defame
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Verb
(defam)- to defame somebody
- My guilt thy growing virtues did defame ; / My blackness blotted thy unblemish'd name.
Synonyms
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* *stigmatize
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Alternative forms
* (UK) stigmatiseVerb
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- Helen Hardacre, in her study of discourses stigmatizing women who have had abortions, argues that there has been a marked rise in media interest in women's sexuality since the 1970s.
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- This chapter examines the social determinants of depression in black men because no other race-by-gender population group has been stigmatized as much as black men.