marginalization
🇺🇸 /ˌmɑrdʒənələˈzeɪʃən/
📖 Definitions
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noun
The process of treating a person, group, or concept as insignificant or peripheral, pushing them to the margins of society, a discussion, or a field of activity.; The act of relegating someone or something to a lower status, reduced importance, or diminished power within a social, political, or economic system.; In statistics and probability theory, the process of obtaining the marginal distribution of a subset of variables by summing or integrating over the other variables.; The state or condition of being made to feel unimportant, powerless, or excluded from participation in a group or society.
🔗 Details
Word forms
uncountable
Collocations
social marginalizationpolitical marginalizationeconomic marginalizationmarginalization of minoritieslead to marginalizationrisk of marginalization
Derivatives
marginalizemarginalmarginmarginallymarginalizedmarginalitymarginalisation
Synonyms
exclusionostracismalienationsideliningisolationperipheralization
Antonyms
inclusionintegrationacceptance
Commonly confused
marginality
EN: 'Marginality' refers to the state or condition of being marginal, while 'marginalization' refers to the process of making someone or something marginal.
marginalism
EN: 'Marginalism' is an economic theory based on marginal utility, unrelated to social exclusion.
Spelling tips
EN: American English uses 'z' (marginalization) while British English uses 's' (marginalisation). Both are correct in their respective varieties.
💬 Examples
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The marginalization of minority voices in mainstream media has been a persistent concern for social justice advocates.
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Economic policies that favor large corporations often lead to the marginalization of small businesses and independent workers.
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Marginalization of the nuisance parameters is a common technique in Bayesian inference to obtain the posterior distribution of the parameters of interest.
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Years of marginalization left the community feeling disconnected from the political process and unwilling to vote.