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Stigmatize vs Stigmatizer - What's the difference?

stigmatize | stigmatizer |

As a verb stigmatize

is to characterize as disgraceful or ignominious; to mark with a stigma or stigmata.

As a noun stigmatizer is

one who stigmatizes.

stigmatize

English

Alternative forms

* (UK) stigmatise

Verb

  • 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, page 78:
    • 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.
  • * 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, page 55:
    • 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.

    Antonyms

    * destigmatize

    Derived terms

    * stigmatization

    stigmatizer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who stigmatizes.
  • * 1844 , Correctional Association of New York, Annual Report (volumes 1-3, page 119)
    • His relatives regard him with indifference and contempt; his brothers and his sisters glow no longer with affection, and all of them despise him as the stigmatizer of the family.