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To stigmatize someone is to treat them as shameful — not because of anything they did wrong, but because society has decided that their situation, illness, job, or behaviour is something to be ashamed of. The word almost always describes something a group does to a person, not something one person does in a moment of anger. You stigmatize people who are poor, people with mental illness, people who have been in prison, people with HIV. Notice the shape of it: the shame lands on the person, but it comes from outside. That is the whole point of the word. A person can feel ashamed on their own; a person is stigmatized by everyone else. Because of this, you will very often meet it in the passive: "Mental illness is still stigmatized here." "These families are stigmatized by their neighbours." The active form is common too, but the thing doing the stigmatizing is usually big and vague — society, the media, the law, the culture — rather than one named person. It is a serious, slightly formal word. You meet it in news articles, in essays, in the speech of doctors, social workers and . Two friends complaining about someone would not use it. And it carries a judgement of its own: when a writer says a group is stigmatized, that writer is almost always saying the shame is unfair and should stop. So it is not a neutral report — it is a quiet argument. That is worth knowing before you use it. You will also see the related noun stigma (the mark of shame itself) and the adjective stigmatized. In British English you may see the spelling stigmatise; the meaning is identical.
汙名化
組成From Greek στίγμα (stigma), which literally meant a mark burned or cut into someone's skin — the brand put on slaves and criminals so that everyone could see, at a glance, what they were. Add the Greek verb ending -ize, "to make into / to do this to," and you get "to brand someone." It came into English through Medieval Latin stigmatizō. The physical branding iron is gone; the idea of a visible mark that others read as shame is exactly what survives in the modern word.
同家族的字
- stigmathe same Greek stigma — the mark itself, where stigmatize is the act of putting it on someone
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
stigmatizeverb/ˈstɪɡmətaɪz/
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To characterize as disgraceful or ignominious; to mark with a stigma or stigmata.
- We stigmatize the Indians, also, as cowardly and treacherous, because they use stratagem in warfare in preference to open force; but in this they are fully justified by their rude code of honor.
- Helen Hardacre, in her study of discourses stigmatizing women who have had abortions, argues that there has been a marked rise in media interest in women's sexuality since the 1970s.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。