dehumanize

See also: de-humanize

English

Alternative forms

• de-humanize, de-humanise
• dehumanise (UK)

Etymology

de- +‎ humanize

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /diːˈhjuːmənaɪz/

Verb

dehumanize (third-person singular simple present dehumanizes, present participle dehumanizing, simple past and past participle dehumanized)

1. To take away humanity; to remove or deny human qualities, characteristics, or attributes; to impersonalize.
   • 1968, Stewart L. Udall, 1976: Agenda for Tomorrow, page 3:

     Yet we are dismayed by the failures and forces that dehumanize and defeat the finest dreams and plans of this generation.

   • 2003, Stephen P. Garvey, editor, Beyond Repair? America's Death Penalty, →ISBN, page 141:

     And, in this country, the traditional, ingrained way to dehumanize people, to make both their pain and their individuality irrelevant, is to rely on their race.

   • 2022 July 14, Rafqa Touma, “Melbourne woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     A Melbourne woman says she feels “dehumanised” after being filmed without consent for a “random act of kindness” TikTok that went viral.

Antonyms

• humanize

Derived terms

• dehumanization

Translations

to take away humanity

• Albanian: çnjerëzoj (sq)
• Armenian: ապամարդկայնացնել (hy) (apamardkaynacʻnel)
• Belarusian: дэгуманізава́ць impf or pf (dehumanizavácʹ)
• Bulgarian: дехуманизи́рам impf or pf (dehumanizíram)
• Catalan: deshumanitzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獸化／兽化 (shòuhuà), 非人化 (zh) (fēirénhuà)

• Czech: dehumanizovat impf or pf
• Danish: dehumanisere
• Dutch: ontmenselijken (nl), dehumaniseren
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• Finnish: epäinhimillistää, dehumanisoida, eläimellistää (fi), ottaa pois ihmisarvo
• French: déshumaniser (fr)
• Galician: deshumanizar
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• German: entmenschen, entmenschlichen (de), dehumanisieren (de)
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• Icelandic: (make inhuman) gera ómennskan m, (make an insensible beast) gera að tilfinningalausri skepnu (is) f
• Ido: deshumanigar (io)
• Italian: disumanizzare
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• Macedonian: дехуманизи́ра impf or pf (dehumanizíra)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dehumanisere (no)

• Polish: odczłowieczać (pl) impf, odczłowieczyć (pl) pf, dehumanizować impf, zdehumanizować pf
• Portuguese: desumanizar (pt)
• Romanian: dezumaniza (ro)
• Russian: обесчелове́чивать (ru) impf (obesčelovéčivatʹ), обесчелове́чить (ru) pf (obesčelovéčitʹ), дегуманизи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (degumanizírovatʹ), расчелове́чивать (ru) impf (rasčelovéčivatʹ), расчелове́чить (ru) pf (rasčelovéčitʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дехуманизирати impf or pf, дехуманизовати impf or pf

  Roman: dehumanizirati impf or pf, dehumanizovati impf or pf

• Slovak: dehumanizovať impf or pf
• Slovene: dehumanizirati impf or pf, razčlovečiti pf
• Spanish: deshumanizar (es)
• Swedish: avhumanisera (sv)
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• Ukrainian: дегуманізува́ти impf or pf (dehumanizuváty), розлю́днювати impf (rozljúdnjuvaty), розлю́днити pf (rozljúdnyty)