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pathologise

pathologise is the alternative spelling of pathologize.

Meaning of pathologize

Verb

pathologize (third-person singular simple present pathologizes, present participle pathologizing, simple past and past participle pathologized)

  1. (transitive) To characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease.
    • Near-synonym: medicalize
    Synonyms:
    medicalize

Forms of pathologise

third-person singular presentpathologises
present participlepathologising
past participlepathologised
pastpathologised

Questions about pathologise

What is pathologise the alternative spelling of?
Pathologise is the alternative spelling of pathologize.

Words near pathologise in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pathologise (page history and authors); pathologize (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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