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pathologisation

pathologisation is the alternative spelling of pathologization.

Meaning of pathologization

Noun

pathologization (countable and uncountable, plural pathologizations)

  1. The treatment of a health or behaviour condition as if it were a medical condition.
    • Near-synonym: overmedicalization

Forms of pathologisation

pluralpathologisations

Words formed from pathologisation

Questions about pathologisation

What is pathologisation the alternative spelling of?
Pathologisation is the alternative spelling of pathologization.

Words near pathologisation in the dictionary

  1. pathologicoanatomic
  2. pathologicoanatomical
  3. pathologicoclinical
  4. pathologicohistological
  5. pathologies
  6. pathologisation
  7. pathologisations
  8. pathologise
  9. pathologised
  10. pathologises
  11. pathologising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pathologisation (page history and authors); pathologization (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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