Definition of dehumanization in English:
dehumanization
(British dehumanisation)
noundiːhjuːmənʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)nˌdiˌ(h)jumənəˈzeɪʃ(ə)n
mass nounThe process of depriving a person or group of positive human qualities.
the consequences of systematic dehumanization of one racial group in a society can be horrific
Example sentencesExamples
- Slave resistance in such a world would counter dehumanization and could serve to prepare individuals or groups for political action.
- To the very end of his life, Freire continued to condemn forces of exploitation and dehumanization.
- The government has failed to eliminate this dehumanisation of childhood.
- It is this lack of knowledge and understanding which allows the racial vilification and dehumanisation of fellow human beings to take hold.
- They tell of death and dehumanization but convey, through a succession of detailed memories, the life that managed to persist.
- Working as a maid drove home to Ehrenreich the marginalization and dehumanization of the American poor.
- Maybe I can fight the dehumanization of all of us, because I think that's the ultimate problem.
- Fight Club satirizes corporate dehumanization and its emasculation of men.
- We are here to protest the dehumanization that goes hand-in-hand with globalization; to promote the value of the human being.
- Such an approach encourages the dehumanization that leads to atrocities in the first place.
Definition of dehumanization in US English:
dehumanization
(British dehumanisation)
nounˌdēˌ(h)yo͞omənəˈzāSH(ə)nˌdiˌ(h)jumənəˈzeɪʃ(ə)n
The process of depriving a person or group of positive human qualities.
the consequences of systematic dehumanization of one racial group in a society can be horrific
Example sentencesExamples
- They tell of death and dehumanization but convey, through a succession of detailed memories, the life that managed to persist.
- To the very end of his life, Freire continued to condemn forces of exploitation and dehumanization.
- Working as a maid drove home to Ehrenreich the marginalization and dehumanization of the American poor.
- Slave resistance in such a world would counter dehumanization and could serve to prepare individuals or groups for political action.
- The government has failed to eliminate this dehumanisation of childhood.
- Fight Club satirizes corporate dehumanization and its emasculation of men.
- Maybe I can fight the dehumanization of all of us, because I think that's the ultimate problem.
- It is this lack of knowledge and understanding which allows the racial vilification and dehumanisation of fellow human beings to take hold.
- We are here to protest the dehumanization that goes hand-in-hand with globalization; to promote the value of the human being.
- Such an approach encourages the dehumanization that leads to atrocities in the first place.