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Dehumanization   /dˌihjˌumənəzˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Dehumanization

noun
1.
The act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities.  Synonym: dehumanisation.






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"Dehumanization" Quotes from Famous Books



... kind of "miracle" would bespeak an extension of power over physical nature beyond human wont; while all these together would point to that freedom from the trammels of space and time, which is of the very essence of immaterial or spiritual subsistence. Thus, by a gradual process of dehumanization, the mind would be instinctively led from the notion of a man magnified in all excellences and refined from all limitations, to the conception of spirit. But coexistently with this progress of the reason, the imagination would ever strain to clothe ...
— The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) • George Tyrrell



Words linked to "Dehumanization" :   degradation, debasement, dehumanisation, dehumanize



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