Pathologized vs Pathological - What's the difference?
pathologized | pathological |
(pathologize)
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.
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(medicine) Pertaining to pathology.
(medicine) Relating to, amounting to, causing, or caused by a physical or mental disorder.
(mathematics) Having properties which are counterintuitive or difficult to handle.
(computer science) Having properties that cause unusually bad behaviour, especially regarding correctness or performance.
As a verb pathologized
is past tense of pathologize.As an adjective pathological is
pertaining to pathology.pathologized
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Verb
(head)pathologize
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Alternative forms
* pathologiseVerb
(pathologiz)Pain, the Disease," New York Times (retrieved 12 July 2011):
- Many pain patients have had doctors who pathologized them, told them their pain was unreal.
Inbox," Time :
- To pathologize China's industries as corrupt not only reeks of centuries-old Yellow Peril rhetoric but also fails to acknowledge the shortcomings of transnational regulations.
p. 142:
- My automatic reaction was to deal with the anxiety he evoked in me by pathologizing him as paranoid and obsessive compulsive.