Antihuman
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A being that opposes, or typifies the opposite of, the human race.
"The dialectical obverse of this use of opium is the fear that opium will turn humans into nonhumans or antihumans. Wild beasts, addicts, and Orientals are alike feared as antihumans, negations of humans."
- 1 Opposed to humanity.
"What more fierce than the scorn and more violent than the abuse poured on the member of a trades-union whose sound moral feeling rebels against the iniquities sanctioned by its collective conscience, albeit that conscience be essentially antisocial, if not antihuman?"
- 2 Describing an antibody that reacts with any antigen found in (and with some relevant degree of specificity to) humans. not-comparable
Example
More examples"What more fierce than the scorn and more violent than the abuse poured on the member of a trades-union whose sound moral feeling rebels against the iniquities sanctioned by its collective conscience, albeit that conscience be essentially antisocial, if not antihuman?"
Etymology
From anti- + human.
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