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pathologizations

pathologizations is the plural 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

Questions about pathologizations

What is pathologizations the plural of?
Pathologizations is the plural of pathologization.

Words near pathologizations in the dictionary

  1. pathologises
  2. pathologising
  3. pathologist
  4. pathologists
  5. pathologization
  6. pathologizations
  7. pathologize
  8. pathologized
  9. pathologizes
  10. pathologizing
  11. pathology

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pathologizations (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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