dehumanization

English

Alternative forms

• (UK spelling) dehumanisation

Etymology

From de- ‎ humanization or dehumanize ‎ -ation or de- ‎ human ‎ -ization.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /diːˌhjuːmənaɪˈzeɪʃən/

Noun

dehumanization (countable and uncountable, plural dehumanizations)

1. The act or process of dehumanizing.
   • 1971 August 8, Carey McWilliams, “While the cities burn, the machines click on”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Lowi's concern for the rule of law tends to forget that government is not only by but for men; he substitutes an older [impersonality] for the dehumanizations of the new.

   • 2023 November 2, David Brooks, “How to Stay Sane in Brutalizing Times”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     The essence of dehumanization is not to see someone, to render him inconsequential and invisible.

Antonyms

• anthropomorphism
• humanization

Translations

the act or process of dehumanizing

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: ապամարդկայնացում (hy) (apamardkaynacʻum)
• Belarusian: дэгуманіза́цыя f (dehumanizácyja)
• Bulgarian: дехуманиза́ция f (dehumanizácija)
• Catalan: deshumanització f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 非人化 (zh) (fēirénhuà)

• Czech: dehumanizace f
• Danish: dehumanisering c
• Dutch: ontmenselijking (nl) f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: ebainimlikustamine
• Finnish: epäinhimillistäminen, ihmisarvon kieltäminen
• French: déshumanisation (fr) f
• Galician: deshumanización (gl) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Entmenschlichung f, Dehumanisation f
• Greek: απανθρωποποίηση f (apanthropopoíisi)
• Italian: disumanizzazione f
• Japanese: 非人間化 (ひにんげんか, hiningenka)
• Korean: 비인간화(非人間化) (biin'ganhwa)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: дехуманизација f (dehumanizacija)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dehumanisering m

• Polish: dehumanizacja (pl) f, odczłowieczenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: desumanização f
• Romanian: dezumanizare (ro) f
• Russian: обесчелове́чивание (ru) n (obesčelovéčivanije), дегуманиза́ция (ru) f (degumanizácija), расчелове́чивание (ru) n (rasčelovéčivanije), расчелове́чение (ru) n (rasčelovéčenije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дехуманизација f

  Roman: dehumanizacija f

• Slovak: dehumanizácia f
• Slovene: dehumanizacija f
• Spanish: deshumanización (es) f
• Swedish: avhumanisering (sv) c
• Turkish: insandışılaştırma
• Ukrainian: дегуманіза́ція f (dehumanizácija), розлю́днення n (rozljúdnennja)

See also

• dewomanization

Further reading

• “dehumanization”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.