dehumanization

English

Alternative forms

• (UK spelling) dehumanisation

Etymology

From de- +‎ humanization or dehumanize +‎ -ation or de- +‎ human +‎ -ization.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /diːˌhjuːmənaɪˈzeɪʃən/

Noun

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dehumanization

Wikipedia

dehumanization (countable and uncountable, plural dehumanizations)

1. The act or process of dehumanizing.
   • 1971 August 8, Carey McWilliams, “While the cities burn, the machines click on”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 22 September 2024:

     Lowi's concern for the rule of law tends to forget that government is not only by but for men; he substitutes an older [impersonality] for the dehumanizations of the new.

   • 2023 November 2, David Brooks, “How to Stay Sane in Brutalizing Times”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 4 November 2023:

     The essence of dehumanization is not to see someone, to render him inconsequential and invisible.

Antonyms

• anthropomorphism
• humanization

Translations

the act or process of dehumanizing

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Armenian: ապամարդկայնացում (hy) (apamardkaynacʻum) Belarusian: дэгуманіза́цыя f (dehumanizácyja) Bulgarian: дехуманиза́ция f (dehumanizácija) Catalan: deshumanització f Chinese: Mandarin: 非人化 (zh) (fēirénhuà) Czech: dehumanizace f Danish: dehumanisering c Dutch: ontmenselijking (nl) f Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Estonian: ebainimlikustamine Finnish: epäinhimillistäminen, ihmisarvon kieltäminen French: déshumanisation (fr) f Galician: deshumanización (gl) f Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Entmenschlichung f, Dehumanisation f Greek: απανθρωποποίηση (el) f (apanthropopoíisi) Italian: disumanizzazione f Japanese: 非人間化 (ひにんげんか, hiningenka) Korean: 비인간화(非人間化) (biin'ganhwa) Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: дехуманизација f (dehumanizacija) Norwegian: Bokmål: dehumanisering m Polish: dehumanizacja (pl) f, odczłowieczenie (pl) n Portuguese: desumanização f Romanian: dezumanizare (ro) f Russian: обесчелове́чивание (ru) n (obesčelovéčivanije), дегуманиза́ция (ru) f (degumanizácija), расчелове́чивание (ru) n (rasčelovéčivanije), расчелове́чение (ru) n (rasčelovéčenije) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: дехуманизација f Roman: dehumanizacija f Slovak: dehumanizácia f Slovene: dehumanizacija f Spanish: deshumanización (es) f Swedish: avhumanisering (sv) c Turkish: insandışılaştırma Ukrainian: дегуманіза́ція f (dehumanizácija), розлю́днення n (rozljúdnennja)

See also

• dewomanization

Further reading

• “dehumanization”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.