Usually means: Attributing behavior to psychological disorder.
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  2. pathologize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pathologize: Collins English Dictionary
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  1. pathologize: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (pathologize)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease.

Similar:
pathologise, suffer from, lesionalize, chronify, overdiagnose, diagnosis, sclerose, keloid, cyanose, ankylose, more...

Opposite:
normalize, validate, legitimize

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Similar:
pathologise, suffer from, lesionalize, chronify, overdiagnose, diagnosis, sclerose, keloid, cyanose, ankylose, more...

Opposite:
normalize, validate, legitimize



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