stigma

IPA: stˈɪgmʌ

noun

  • A mark of infamy or disgrace.
  • Discriminatory attitudes.
  • A scar or birthmark.
  • (Christianity, chiefly in the plural stigmata) A mark on the body corresponding to one of the wounds of the Crucifixion on Jesus' body, and sometimes reported to bleed periodically.
  • (literary, figurative) An outward sign; an indication.
  • (botany) The sticky part of a flower that receives pollen during pollination.
  • (medicine) A visible sign or characteristic of a disease.
  • (typography) A ligature of the Greek letters sigma and tau, (Ϛ/ϛ).
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Examples of "stigma" in Sentences

  • What is their stigma
  • He is ashamed of stigma.
  • He denies to carry stigma.
  • His family never admitted that stigma.
  • This was the removal of the 909 stigma.
  • The style connects the stigma to the ovary.
  • She bears the stigma for the rest of her life.
  • The news dealt with the stigma of the President.
  • The history of leprosy stigma is as old as the history of leprosy.
  • Pollination is the movement of pollen from the anthers to the stigma.

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