nonperson

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nonperson

  • /ˈnɒnpɜː(ɹ)sən/

noun nonpersons · nonpeople

  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. 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.

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noun not a real person; a subhuman

한국어사람이 아닌 salam-i anin
DeutschUnperson

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@misc{nonperson_2026,
  title = {nonperson},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nonperson},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}