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pathologizing

pathologizing is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about pathologizing

What is pathologizing the present participle and gerund of?
Pathologizing is the present participle and gerund of pathologize.

Words near pathologizing in the dictionary

  1. pathologization
  2. pathologizations
  3. pathologize
  4. pathologized
  5. pathologizes
  6. pathologizing
  7. pathology
  8. pathomania
  9. pathomechanical
  10. pathomechanically
  11. pathomechanics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pathologizing (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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