stigmatic

Relating to marks

Stigmatic relates to stigma in its various senses.

In religion, a stigmatic is a person bearing stigmata—wounds corresponding to those of the crucified Christ.

In botany, stigmatic describes features of the stigma, the pollen-receiving part of a flower.

In optics, stigmatic refers to a lens or system that focuses light to a single point without aberration.

social

outcast

Shunned, rejected person

marginalized · excluded · alienated · branded · labeled · marked · typecast · stereotyped · scapegoated · rejected

religious

crucifixion

Execution by cross

martyrdom · passion · sacred · holy · miraculous · hands · feet · side · piercing · nails

shame

dishonor

Loss of respect

disrepute · scandal · humiliation · degradation · tarnished · discredited · defamed · vilified · denigrated · sullied

botanical

pistil

Seed-producing flower organ

receptive · flower · ovary · style · anther · fertilization · reproduction · stamen · ovule · germination

Opposites
optical aberration

stigmaticastigmatic

Vision warped by lens shape

aberrant · distorted · aberrated · uncorrected · blurred

social marking/shame

stigmaticunmarked

Having no visible identification

unstigmatized · accepted · normalized · honored · celebrated

religious wounds

stigmaticunmarked

Having no visible identification

ordinary · unwounded · unstigmatized · unsanctified · secular

Phrases
Family

stigmatize, astigmatism, stigmatized, stigmatizing, stigmatizes, astigmatic, stigmatization, stigmata, stigmatism

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