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Learn to pronounce stig·ma

/ˈstiɡmə/
noun
  1. a mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality, or person.
    "the stigma of having gone to prison will always be with me"
    synonyms: shame, disgrace, dishonor, stain, taint, blot, blot on one's escutcheon, blemish, brand, mark, slur, smirch
  2. (in Christian tradition) marks corresponding to those left on Jesus’ body by the Crucifixion, said to have been impressed by divine favor on the bodies of St. Francis of Assisi and others.
  3. a visible sign or characteristic of a disease.
    "knee deformities or other stigmata of childhood rickets"
  4. (in a flower) the part of a pistil that receives the pollen during pollination.

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