deviantize

English

Etymology

deviant +‎ -ize

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To make into, or begin to treat as, a deviant.
   • 1992, Ramona MArie Asher, Women with alcoholic husbands: ambivalence and the trap of codependency:

     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).

Related terms

• deviantization