invisiblize

present singular third person invisiblizes · participle present invisiblizing · participle past invisiblized · past invisiblized · alternative invisibilize · alternative invisiblise · alternative invisibilise

1. transitivehuman sciencesTo make invisible; to marginalize so as to erase the presence or contributions of.

   Furthermore, I claim this subordinate place to traditional medical systems tends to create a perception that holistic health practices are only now emerging, which can invisiblize their long history of development and utilization[…]

   2008, Donna A. Dragon, Toward Embodied Education, 1850s-2007, page 338

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   […] there is also the danger […] that such a critique recuperates gender in terms that quite literally invisiblize the very issues of race and ethnicity which, as Rolling Stone demonstrates, are crucial to an understanding […] of rock as a musical/cultural practice.

   2002, Roger Beebe, Denise Fulbrook, Ben Saunders, Rock Over the Edge: Transformations in Popular Music Culture

   Synonyms: invisible