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dehumanisation::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | dehumanization |
| Type of | debasement, degradation |
| Derivation | dehumanise |
Examples of dehumanisation
dehumanisation
The public outcry shows people are aware of the dehumanisation process.
From the independent.co.uk
Now that is a horrendous dehumanisation of prisoners.
From the economist.com
Japanese commanders actively encouraged the dehumanisation of their troops in the belief it would make them more formidable.
From the economist.com
The latest offerings from Hollywood and the literary world are arriving on a wave of destruction, dehumanisation and post-apocalyptic wasteland drama.
From the independent.co.uk
But nothing excuses the collective punishment, impoverishment, cultural deprivation and dehumanisation of Gazans that Israel has imposed.
From the smh.com.au
The tactics of creating plantations, divide and rule and the dehumanisation of the opposition have all been used in Ireland and then rolled out in other colonies.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
The young Karl Marx criticised the project of political emancipation, embodied in the form of human rights, as symptomatic of the very dehumanisation it was intended to oppose.
From the en.wikipedia.org
I do however think that many NGOs have a case to answer for in that they have contributed to the general dehumanisation of developing countries'populations in the mind of westerners.
From the guardian.co.uk
It was condemned by Ruskin as the very model of mechanical dehumanisation in design, but later came to be presented as the prototype of Modern architecture.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Dehumanization: the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities; "science has been blamed for the dehumanization of modern life"
- (dehumanised) dehumanized: divested of human qualities or attributes
- Dehumanization is the process by which members of a group of people assert the "inferiority" of another group through subtle or overt acts or statements. ...
- (Dehumanise) An attempt by the Nazis to brutalise or take away the human qualities of a person or people.
- (dehumanising) v. tr. Effects of militia attack that killed the child, not exacerbated by the journalists who require the grieving eyewitness mother to describe the ordeal (preferably with tears) in a thirty second soundbite. ...
- Is a psychological state and linguistic transition which occurs during conflict which both justifies past behaviour; and encourages future aggressive conflict (eg policemen are "pigs"; Bill is "the manager", Mary is "that bimbo" etc)
