stigmatism

IPA: stˈɪgmʌtɪzʌm

(optics) Image-formation property of an optical system which focuses a single point source in object space into a single point in image space
(medicine) Normal eyesight, anastigmatic state
(pathology) State of having stigmata

Examples of "stigmatism" in Sentences

Then there is the whole stigmatism of being full of yourself.
I'm a premature baby with a stigmatism, asthma and I've ruptured an eardrum.
My stigmatism stuttered just so in a first fast scan and I thought it said "co-offenders."
Jayme knows the stigmatism surrounding the sex-trade industry, but she knows the dangers within the industry even more.
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?
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.
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).
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.
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.