dehumanisation

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A form of dehumanization — The act or process of dehumanizing.

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Meanings

noundehumanisation (countable and uncountable, plural dehumanisations)

plural dehumanisations

  1. UKcountablenonstandarduncountableNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of dehumanization.

    But I didn't want to talk about Claude. I wanted to talk about the user, about addiction and dehumanisation, about power and accountability.

    2026 July 25, Carmody Grey, “AI’s quest for morality”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1
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    Jada's case happened within the wider context of a world that objectifies women, and hypersexualises black women, in particular, to the point of dehumanisation.

    2014 July 17, Laura Bates, “#JadaPose: the online ridiculing of a teen victim is part of a sickening trend”, in The Guardian

    When your priority is free speech and ours is our lives, you don’t understand we can’t afford to pay for your privilege with our dehumanisations, the first step to opening us up for any evil.

    2019 August 16, Nyadol Nyuon, “It's easy to argue for free speech when it's not you or your children in the firing line”, in The Guardian

Synonyms & antonyms

nounthe act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Cite this entry
APA

dehumanisation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dehumanisation

MLA

“dehumanisation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dehumanisation. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dehumanisation,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dehumanisation.

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