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What is a stigma?

What is a stigma? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A mark of infamy or disgrace.
  2. A scar or birthmark.
  3. (plural) A mark on the body corresponding to one of the wounds of the Crucifixion on Jesus' body.
  4. (botany) The sticky part of a flower that receives pollen during pollination.
  5. A ligature of the Greek letters sigma and tau, (Ϛ/ϛ).
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Economic realities have helped to remove the old stigma associated with renting.
By volunteering to go, prisoners would win a remission of sentence and efface the stigma of jail.
Nevertheless, the stigma of remediation continues to shape writing center identity.
It appears fully satisfied with the idea that renaming the Outreach Fund will eliminate the stigma of race and gender preferences.
These genes have multiple alleles and are expressed either in the stigma or in the pollen.
If marriage confers social status and respectability, adultery confers a stigma.

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