See pathologize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "pathology",
"3": "-ize"
},
"expansion": "pathology + -ize",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From pathology + -ize.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "pathologizes",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "pathologizing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "pathologized",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "pathologized",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "pathologize (third-person singular simple present pathologizes, present participle pathologizing, simple past and past participle pathologized)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ize",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Danish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "pathologisation"
},
{
"word": "pathologization"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Some childhood behavior has been pathologized as attention-deficit disorder.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2001 December 16, Melanie Thernstrom, “Pain, the Disease”, in The New York Times, retrieved 2011-07-12:",
"text": "Many pain patients have had doctors who pathologized them, told them their pain was unreal.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2007 July 23, Rachel Endo, “Inbox”, in Time:",
"text": "To pathologize China's industries as corrupt not only reeks of centuries-old Yellow Peril rhetoric but also fails to acknowledge the shortcomings of transnational regulations.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Joseph G. Ponterotto et al., Handbook of Multicultural Counseling, →ISBN, page 142:",
"text": "My automatic reaction was to deal with the anxiety he evoked in me by pathologizing him as paranoid and obsessive compulsive.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, Feminist Research Practice: A Primer, 2nd edition, Los Angeles, C.A. […]: SAGE, →ISBN, page 63:",
"text": "Their results showed that cisgenderist language is commonplace in professional communications between psychologists about children who self-defined their gender, that the most pathologizing language is found in literature by mental health professionals, and that those most closely tied to the most prolific author in the field through publication are most likely to use language that pathologizes and misgenders children.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease."
],
"id": "en-pathologize-en-verb-6m1ueG7s",
"links": [
[
"pathology",
"pathology"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"english": "usually synonymous",
"word": "medicalize"
},
{
"word": "pathologise"
}
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease",
"word": "sygeliggøre"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease",
"word": "pathologisieren"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease",
"word": "patologizál"
}
]
}
],
"word": "pathologize"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "pathologisation"
},
{
"word": "pathologization"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "pathology",
"3": "-ize"
},
"expansion": "pathology + -ize",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From pathology + -ize.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "pathologizes",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "pathologizing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "pathologized",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "pathologized",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "pathologize (third-person singular simple present pathologizes, present participle pathologizing, simple past and past participle pathologized)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms suffixed with -ize",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Danish translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Some childhood behavior has been pathologized as attention-deficit disorder.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2001 December 16, Melanie Thernstrom, “Pain, the Disease”, in The New York Times, retrieved 2011-07-12:",
"text": "Many pain patients have had doctors who pathologized them, told them their pain was unreal.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2007 July 23, Rachel Endo, “Inbox”, in Time:",
"text": "To pathologize China's industries as corrupt not only reeks of centuries-old Yellow Peril rhetoric but also fails to acknowledge the shortcomings of transnational regulations.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Joseph G. Ponterotto et al., Handbook of Multicultural Counseling, →ISBN, page 142:",
"text": "My automatic reaction was to deal with the anxiety he evoked in me by pathologizing him as paranoid and obsessive compulsive.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, Feminist Research Practice: A Primer, 2nd edition, Los Angeles, C.A. […]: SAGE, →ISBN, page 63:",
"text": "Their results showed that cisgenderist language is commonplace in professional communications between psychologists about children who self-defined their gender, that the most pathologizing language is found in literature by mental health professionals, and that those most closely tied to the most prolific author in the field through publication are most likely to use language that pathologizes and misgenders children.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease."
],
"links": [
[
"pathology",
"pathology"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"english": "usually synonymous",
"word": "medicalize"
},
{
"word": "pathologise"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease",
"word": "sygeliggøre"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease",
"word": "pathologisieren"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease",
"word": "patologizál"
}
],
"word": "pathologize"
}
Download raw JSONL data for pathologize meaning in English (3.5kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (4ba5975 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.