minoritize

English

Alternative forms

• minoritise

Etymology

From minority +‎ -ize.

Verb

minoritize (third-person singular simple present minoritizes, present participle minoritizing, simple past and past participle minoritized)

1. (transitive) To make or treat as a minority.

   Synonym: marginalize

   Antonym: majoritize

   • 1991 May 4, Michael Bronski, “One Man's 'Poison'”, in Gay Community News, page 16:

     A commentary on how the media and the culture have distorted and minoritized the lives of people with AIDS.

   • 2016, David V. Ruffolo, Post-Queer Politics:

     Resistance implies that there is something to resist. More often than not, these politics have resisted forms of power that majoritize and minoritize subjects and are frequently situated in binaries: […]