Dehumanize

Quick meaning: Dehumanize is a verb meaning (transitive) To take away humanity; to remove or deny human qualities, characteristics, or attributes; to impersonalize.

Meaning

(transitive) To take away humanity; to remove or deny human qualities, characteristics, or attributes; to impersonalize.

Example Sentences

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

To what extent can we stop making the culture of the Other so dehumanized and Satanized as to make the Other fit to be genocidable?

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

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.

Word Forms

• dehumanizes
• dehumanizing
• dehumanized
• de-humanize
• de-humanise
• dehumanise

Antonyms for dehumanize

Common opposites include humanize, humanise.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include de-humanize, de-humanise, impersonalize, unhumanize, dehumanise, unhumanise.

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