What does dehumanization mean?

Definitions for dehumanization
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. dehumanization, dehumanisationnoun

    the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities

    "science has been blamed for the dehumanization of modern life"

Wiktionary

  1. dehumanizationnoun

    The act or process of dehumanizing

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  1. dehumanization

    Dehumanization is the psychological or socio-political process of demonizing, marginalizing, or reducing the perception of an individual or a group to that of being less than human. This often involves negating their humanity, personal feelings, individuality, and experiences. It can be used as a method to justify violence, discrimination, or other forms of oppression.

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  1. Dehumanization

    Dehumanization describes the denial of “humanness” to others and is theorized to take on two forms: animalistic dehumanization, which is employed on a largely intergroup basis, and mechanistic dehumanization, which is employed on a largely interpersonal basis. Dehumanization can occur discursively, symbolically, or physically. Dehumanization often ignores the target's individuality and prevents one from showing compassion towards stigmatized groups. Dehumanization may be carried out by a social institution or via an individual's sentiments and actions. Dehumanization can be unintentional, especially on the part of individuals, as with some types of de facto racism. State-organized dehumanization has historically been directed against perceived racial, ethnic, national, or religious minority groups. Other minoritized and marginalized individuals and groups are also susceptible to various forms of dehumanization. The concept of dehumanization has received empirical attention in the psychological literature. It is conceptually related to infrahumanization, deligitimization, moral exclusion and objectification. Dehumanization occurs across several domains, is facilitated by status, power, and social connection, and results in behaviors like exclusion, violence, and support for violence against others.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Dehumanization

    The process by which a person or group of persons comes to be regarded or treated as lacking in human qualities.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of dehumanization in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of dehumanization in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of dehumanization in a Sentence

  1. Tommy Curry:

    Black men are always perceived as being taller, more aggressive, or violent, more prone to conflict, more athletic than they actually are, and it's those social perceptions that have been linked to forms of dehumanization -- likening them to apes, sorts of primal beasts and animals -- that fit into how we think of Black men, both as athletes and as kind of super predators, as superhuman.

  2. Banfield Norris:

    I think for me it's like there is so much violent dehumanization that the Black community has to go through on a daily basis, there is so much devastation, particularly this year, 2020 with the pandemic, and everything brought to the table about how there is so much inequality and inequity, that when you come to the table with something like this, it's like,' Child, please.'.

  3. Diana Buttu:

    It was very refreshing when Anthony Bourdain came here. It was very revealing that after the segment aired and when Anthony Bourdain talked about Palestinians that Anthony Bourdain made sure to mention the issue of dehumanization, that Palestinians had been deprived of their humanity, anthony Bourdain saw Palestinians as human beings -- it's sad we have to say this in this day and age, that someone saw us as human beings, but Anthony Bourdain did and that for me was very powerful.

  4. Caroline Light:

    The fact that we still see this( dehumanization of Blackness) is, I think, proof that we've not really come that far, i wish that I had a silver lining. But I think that we're going to continue to see these kinds of narratives play out because they're so effective, ultimately( at reinforcing existing power structures).

  5. Keith Baraka:

    As the murder of George Floyd drew attention worldwide to police abuse of Black men, we must also remember that police violence comes in many forms—including through the dehumanization that results when officers treat Black men like criminals. I am grateful to District Attorney Boudin for valuing Black lives and for refusing to excuse police violence.

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