Deviantize

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make into, or begin to treat as, a deviant. transitive

    "Rather, I am calling attention to the self-imaging challenges of these experiences and to the implications of a process that seems first to deviantize the women's previous actions and then to medicalize this newfound deviance as the "illness" codependency (Asher and Brissett 1988)."

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"Rather, I am calling attention to the self-imaging challenges of these experiences and to the implications of a process that seems first to deviantize the women's previous actions and then to medicalize this newfound deviance as the "illness" codependency (Asher and Brissett 1988)."

Etymology

From deviant + -ize.

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