a person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights; a person whose existence is systematically ignored (especially for ideological or political reasons)
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They have all but made him a nonperson in the land he struggled for.
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When he died in 1971, Nikita Khrushchev was officially a nonperson.
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He was reduced from one of the half a dozen or so most important figures in China to a nonperson.
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After my expulsion, I was officially declared to be a nonperson.
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Barry Lamar Bonds has become a nonperson.
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He was a traitor and thus a nonperson.
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Apart from a few performances, mostly on battered uprights in remote villages, Feltsman was a musical nonperson.
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After more than a decade as one of the globe's two most powerful leaders, Khrushchev became a nonperson overnight.
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Shunned by his fellow Democrats, ignored by his successor, Carter has virtually become a nonperson, a President who never was.
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- A person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights; a person whose existence is systematically ignored (especially for ideological or political reasons); "the former senator is treated as a nonperson by this administration"; "George Orwell predicted that political dissidents would be treated ...
- A nonperson is a citizen or a member of a group who lacks, loses, or is forcibly denied social or legal status, especially basic human rights, or who effectively ceases to have a record of their existence within a society (damnatio memoriae), from a point of view of traceability, documentation, ...
- Not a real person; a subhuman; Not a legal entity; Something other than a person; an object
- Many TMG users add people to their dataset that do not represent real people. A "non-person" is used to record events involving another entity such as a ship, a census, a battle, etc. Tags attached to the non-person link actual people to whatever the non-person represents. ...
