Unperson

Quick meaning: Unperson is a noun meaning A person who has been stripped of rights, identity, or humanity.

Meaning

A person who has been stripped of rights, identity, or humanity.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To strip (a person) of rights, identity, or humanity; to dehumanize.

Example Sentences

With his identity stolen, he became an unperson, unable to prove his existence to the government.

Could a decision in the clinic’s favor today mean that, in that future, the lab-gestated babies would be legally unpersoned, because the womb had been held to impart a worth the child did not have on its own?

Though Gao is classed as an unperson in China, which did not react officially yesterday, the award was forecast to cause widespread private joy there as the literary equivalent of the country winning the World Cup.

Unhappily, shortcomings here on the part of even a few schools provide a handle for the type of irresponsible generalization that recently labeled the lay professor on the Catholic campus "unwanted, unpaid, uncared for and unpersoned."

Word Forms

• unpersons
• unpeople
• unpersoning
• unpersoned

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unwoman, unpersonality, disindividualization, impersonhood, depersonalization, disindividualisation.

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