deviantize

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verb

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

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Meanings

verbdeviantize (third-person singular simple present deviantizes, present participle deviantizing, simple past and past participle deviantized)

present singular third person deviantizes · participle present deviantizing · participle past deviantized · past deviantized

  1. transitiveTo make into, or begin to treat as, a deviant.

    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).

    1992, Ramona MArie Asher, Women with alcoholic husbands: ambivalence and the trap of codependency

Origin

From deviant + -ize.

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APA

deviantize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deviantize

MLA

“deviantize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deviantize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “deviantize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deviantize.

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