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Nonperson
//ˈnɒnpɜː(ɹ)sən// noun
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Noun
- 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 a person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights; a person whose existence is systematically ignored (especially for ideological or political reasons) wordnet
- 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."
Etymology
From non- + person.
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