deviantize means to make into, or begin to treat as, a deviant. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From deviant + -ize.
verb
- To make into, or begin to treat as, a deviant.“Rather, I am calling attention to the self-imaging challenges of these experiences and to the implications of a process that seems first to deviantize the women's previous actions and then to medicalize this newfound deviance as the "illness" codependency (Asher and Brissett 1988).”