Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The condition of being affected by stigmata.
- noun The state of a refracting or reflecting system in which light rays from a single point are accurately focused at another point.
- noun Normal eyesight.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition in which stigmata are present.
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- noun optics Image-formation property of an optical system which focuses a single point source in object space into a single point in image space
- noun medicine Normal eyesight,
anastigmatic state - noun pathology State of having some
stigmata
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun normal eyesight
- noun (optics) condition of an optical system (as a lens) in which light rays from a single point converge in a single focal point
- noun the condition of having or being marked by stigmata
Etymologies
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Examples
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My stigmatism stuttered just so in a first fast scan and I thought it said "co-offenders."
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That stigmatism was apparently short lived, unlike that of the swastika of Nazi Germany, and the fasces appears today on several symbols of U.S. government, including the seal of the U.S. Senate and on the frieze of the facade of the U.S.
Winged Liberty (“Mercury”) Dime, 1916-1945 : Coin Guide 2009
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Then there is the whole stigmatism of being full of yourself.
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They suffered stigmatism, criminalization (jailed for picketing the White House on trumped up charges), they endured abuse at the hands of government officials (force feeding in jail while on a hunger strike).
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Jayme knows the stigmatism surrounding the sex-trade industry, but she knows the dangers within the industry even more.
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I'm a premature baby with a stigmatism, asthma and I've ruptured an eardrum.
LIVE Blog: Landmark health care bill heads to Obama's desk 2010
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We need to change the very words we use to analyze writing so that we can wash this stigmatism out of our collective consciousnesses and allow writers to expand their 'toolkit' and readers to explore more methods of storytelling.
So It Goes: Thoughts on the Cassandra Ghetto Lou Anders 2007
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Is a society where the stigmatism of prostitution is eroding, where middle-class young women and much younger dress like hookers putting our daughters in greater danger?
It's not just the throwaway children they're pimping Janet Ursel 2009
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Is a society where the stigmatism of prostitution is eroding, where middle-class young women and much younger dress like hookers putting our daughters in greater danger?
Archive 2009-02-22 Janet Ursel 2009
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That stigmatism was apparently short lived, unlike that of the swastika of Nazi Germany, and the fasces appears today on several symbols of U.S. government, including the seal of the U.S.
Winged Liberty (“Mercury”) Dime, 1916-1945 : Coin Guide 2009
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