dehumanize
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dehumanize
- /diːˈhjuːmənaɪz/ UK
verb dehumanizes · dehumanizing · dehumanized · de-humanize · de-humanise
- To take away humanity; to remove or deny human qualities, characteristics, or attributes; to impersonalize. In its consistently logical form Quietism makes communion between man and God an impossibility by annulling the distinction between them, ultimately reducing God to a vague and empty abstraction, and dehumanizing man.
Opposite: humanize
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Opposite: humanize
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verb to take away humanity
| Español | deshumanizar |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 獸化 /兽化 shòuhuà, 非人化 fēirénhuà |
| Português | desumanizar |
| Français | déshumaniser |
| Deutsch | entmenschen, entmenschlichen, dehumanisieren |
| Italiano | disumanizzare |
| Ελληνικά | απανθρωπεύω apanthropévo |
| Română | dezumaniza |
| Русский | обесчелове́чивать obesčelovéčivatʹ, обесчелове́чить obesčelovéčitʹ, дегуманизи́ровать degumanizírovatʹ, расчелове́чивать rasčelovéčivatʹ, расчелове́чить rasčelovéčitʹ |
| Tiếng Việt | phi nhân hoá |
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