minoritize

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/maɪˈnɒ.ɹɪ.taɪz/

verb

To make or treat as a minority.

Similar
marginalize
Opposite
majoritize
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Meanings

verbminoritize (third-person singular simple present minoritizes, present participle minoritizing, simple past and past participle minoritized)

present singular third person minoritizes · participle present minoritizing · participle past minoritized · past minoritized · alternative minoritise

  1. transitiveTo make or treat as a minority.

    A commentary on how the media and the culture have distorted and minoritized the lives of people with AIDS.

    1991 May 4, Michael Bronski, “One Man's 'Poison'”, in Gay Community News, page 16
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    Resistance implies that there is something to resist. More often than not, these politics have resisted forms of power that majoritize and minoritize subjects and are frequently situated in binaries: […]

    2016, David V. Ruffolo, Post-Queer Politics

    Synonyms: marginalize · Antonyms: majoritize

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo make or treat as a minority.

Similar
marginalize
Opposite
majoritize

Origin

From minority + -ize.

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APA

minoritize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/minoritize

MLA

“minoritize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/minoritize. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “minoritize,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/minoritize.

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