What does "marginalize" mean?

To relegate (something, especially a topic or a group of people) to the margins or to a lower limit; to exclude socially or otherwise.

How do you pronounce "marginalize"?

Pronounced //ˈmɑːdʒɪnəlaɪz//.

Common synonyms include: alienate, alienate, invisibilize, invisibilize, marginalise, minoritize.

//ˈmɑːdʒɪnəlaɪz// verb

verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Verb

1
To relegate (something, especially a topic or a group of people) to the margins or to a lower limit; to exclude socially or otherwise. transitive
"The practice of only analysing Indian English in terms of how it differs from a notional standard English that resides in the Englishes of the varieties of the Inner Circle is one of the key ways in which Indian English is marginalised."
2
relegate to a lower or outer edge, as of specific groups of people wordnet
3
To find a marginal distribution of a joint probability distribution.
"Ideally, we would like to integrate out the parameters #92;theta, i.e. marginalize in order to obtain a prediction. Since this is again hard to realize analytically, one usually approximates the integral via sampling from the posterior."