STIGMATA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stigmata mean? 

• STIGMATA (noun)
  The noun STIGMATA has 1 sense:

1. marks resembling the wounds on the crucified body of Christ

  Familiarity information: STIGMATA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STIGMATA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marks resembling the wounds on the crucified body of Christ

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("stigmata" is a kind of...):

lesion; wound (an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin))

 Context examples 

That delicately bronzed skin, almost oriental in its coloring, that raven hair, the large liquid eyes, the full but exquisite lips,—all the stigmata of passion were there.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)