invisiblize

English

Alternative forms

• invisibilize, invisiblise

Etymology

From invisible +‎ -ize.

Verb

invisiblize (third-person singular simple present invisiblizes, present participle invisiblizing, simple past and past participle invisiblized)

1. (transitive, chiefly sociology) To make invisible; to marginalize so as to erase the presence or contributions of.
   • 2002, Roger Beebe, Denise Fulbrook, Ben Saunders, Rock Over the Edge: Transformations in Popular Music Culture:

     […] there is also the danger […] that such a critique recuperates gender in terms that quite literally invisiblize the very issues of race and ethnicity which, as Rolling Stone demonstrates, are crucial to an understanding […] of rock as a musical/cultural practice.

   • 2008, Donna A. Dragon, Toward Embodied Education, 1850s-2007, page 338:

     Furthermore, I claim this subordinate place to traditional medical systems tends to create a perception that holistic health practices are only now emerging, which can invisiblize their long history of development and utilization […]

Synonyms

• invisible

Translations

make invisible

• Danish: usynliggøre (da)
• Swedish: osynliggöra