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nonperson

noun
/ˈnɒnpɜː(ɹ)sən/

Etymology

From non- + person.

  1. derived from 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 — “mask”
  2. derived from persōna — “mask used by actor; role, part, character”
  3. derived from parsone
  4. inherited from persoun
  5. prefixed as nonperson — “non + person”

Definitions

  1. Not a real person

    Not a real person; a subhuman.

    • As all lives must end, do you prefer to die as a nonperson, forgotten in a nursing home and totally stripped of dignity and independence?
    • Arguably, what is so hateful about a hate crime is that it is an attempt by some individual or group to treat a Person as a Nonperson.
    • How does hate work? [...] One answer is that the poor person (or the Jew, or the Asian, or the Native American, or whoever) becomes, intellectually, linguistically, and emotionally, a "lessperson," and then a nonperson.

  2. Something other than a person

    Something other than a person; an object.

    • Taken together, all the results suggested that discrimination of person from nonperson slides was not controlled by an obvious single stimulus feature.
    • No nonperson is psychologically indistinguishable from you.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nonperson. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA