dehumanize

See also: de-humanize

English

Alternative forms

• de-humanize
• dehumanise (U.K.)
• de-humanise

Etymology

de- +‎ humanize

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diːˈhjuːmənaɪz/

Verb

1. To take away humanity; to remove or deny human qualities, characteristics, or attributes; to impersonalize.
   • 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.

   • 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.

Antonyms

• humanize

Derived terms

• dehumanization

Translations

to take away humanity

• Catalan: deshumanitzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獸化／兽化 (shòuhuà)

• Czech: dehumanizovat
• Finnish: epäinhimillistää, dehumanisoida, eläimellistää (fi), ottaa pois ihmisarvo
• French: déshumaniser (fr)
• Galician: deshumanizar
• German: entmenschen, entmenschlichen, dehumanisieren
• Icelandic: (make inhuman) gera ómennskan m, (make an insensible beast) gera að tilfinningalausri skepnu (is) f
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• Ido: deshumanigar (io)
• Italian: disumanizzare
• Polish: odczłowieczać (pl) impf, odczłowieczyć pf, dehumanizować impf, zdehumanizować pf
• Portuguese: desumanizar
• Romanian: dezumaniza (ro)
• Russian: обесчеловечивать (ru) (obesčelovečivatʹ)
• Spanish: deshumanizar (es)
• Swedish: avhumanisera