a mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality, or person

the stigma of having gone to prison will always be with me

debt has lost its stigma and is now a part of everyday life

(in Christian tradition) marks corresponding to those left on Christ's body by the Crucifixion, said to have been impressed by divine favour on the bodies of St Francis of Assisi and others

a visible sign or characteristic of a disease

knee deformities or other stigmata of childhood rickets

(in a flower) the part of a pistil that receives the pollen during pollination