Stigma vs. Discrimination — What's the Difference?

An association of disgrace or public disapproval with something, such as an action or condition

Discrimination is the act of making unjustified distinctions between human beings based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they are perceived to belong. People may be discriminated on the basis of race, gender, age, religion, or sexual orientation, as well as other categories.

A visible indicator of disease.

The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex

A small bodily mark, especially a birthmark or scar, that is congenital or indicative of a condition or disease.

Recognition and understanding of the difference between one thing and another

(Psychology) A bleeding spot on the skin considered to be a manifestation of conversion disorder.

The selection of a signal having a required characteristic, such as frequency or amplitude, by means of a discriminator.

Stigmata(Christianity) Bodily marks, sores, or sensations of pain corresponding in location to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus, believed to be given as divine recognition of devotion.

The act of discriminating.

(Botany) The apex of the pistil of a flower, on which pollen grains are deposited and germinate.

The ability or power to see or make fine distinctions; discernment.

(Biology) A small mark, spot, or pore, such as the respiratory spiracle of an insect or an eyespot in certain protists.

Treatment or consideration based on class or category, such as race or gender, rather than individual merit; partiality or prejudice.

(Archaic) A mark burned into the skin as a visible identifier of a person as a criminal or slave; a brand.

Discernment, the act of discriminating, discerning, distinguishing, noting or perceiving differences between things, with the intent to understand rightly and make correct decisions.

A mark of infamy or disgrace.

Differential treatment of an individual or group to their disadvantage; treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit; partiality; prejudice; bigotry.

A scar or birthmark.

(uncountable) The quality of being discriminating; acute discernment, especially in matters of good taste.

A mark on the body corresponding to one of the wounds of the Crucifixion on Jesus' body, and sometimes reported to bleed periodically.

That which discriminates; a distinguishing mark, a characteristic.

An outward sign; an indication.

The act of discriminating, distinguishing, or noting and marking differences.

(botany) The sticky part of a flower that receives pollen during pollination.

The state of being discriminated, distinguished, or set apart.

(medicine) A visible sign or characteristic of a disease.

The arbitrary imposition of unequal tariffs for substantially the same service.

(typography) A ligature of the Greek letters sigma and tau, (Ϛ/ϛ).

The quality of being discriminating; faculty of nicely distinguishing; acute discernment; as, to show great discrimination in the choice of means.

A mark made with a burning iron; a brand.

That which discriminates; mark of distinction.

Any mark of infamy or disgrace; sign of moral blemish; stain or reproach caused by dishonorable conduct; reproachful characterization.

Unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice

That part of a pistil which has no epidermis, and is fitted to receive the pollen. It is usually the terminal portion, and is commonly somewhat glutinous or viscid. See Illust. of Stamen and of Flower.

The cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished

A small spot, mark, scar, or a minute hole; - applied especially to a spot on the outer surface of a Graafian follicle, and to spots of intercellular substance in scaly epithelium, or to minute holes in such spots.

A red speck upon the skin, produced either by the extravasation of blood, as in the bloody sweat characteristic of certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as in the case of drunkards.

One of the external openings of the tracheæ of insects, myriapods, and other arthropods; a spiracle.

A point so connected by any law whatever with another point, called an index, that as the index moves in any manner in a plane the first point or stigma moves in a determinate way in the same plane.

Marks believed to have been supernaturally impressed upon the bodies of certain persons in imitation of the wounds on the crucified body of Christ. See def. 5, above.

The apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil

A symbol of disgrace or infamy;

An external tracheal aperture in a terrestrial arthropod

A skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease