- pathologize
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transitive verb
(-gized; -gizing)
Date: 1649
to view or characterize as medically or psychologically abnormal <natural hormonal shifts have been pathologized — Joyce C. Mills>
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
pathologize
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