Nonperson

//ˈnɒnpɜː(ɹ)sən// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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?"

  2. 2
    a person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights; a person whose existence is systematically ignored (especially for ideological or political reasons) wordnet
  3. 3
    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."

Synonyms

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exilelesspersonsubhumansubhumanunperson

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"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?"

Etymology

From non- + person.

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