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The act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities
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dehumanization
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alt. The act or process of dehumanize n. The act or process of dehumanize
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Dehumanization or dehumanisation describes the denial of " humanness " to other people. It is theorized to take on two forms: animalistic dehumanization , which is employed on a largely intergroup basis, and mechanistic dehumanization , which is employed ...
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n. the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities; "science has been blamed for the dehumanization of modern life" [syn: dehumanisation ]
Usage examples of dehumanization.
But that dehumanization is a historic fact rather than a structural necessity.
All the propaganda carried on to-day by the prophets of nature, the experiments in regeneration, the uncooked food, fresh-air cures, sun-bathing, and so on, the whole Rousseauian paraphernalia, had as its goal nothing but the dehumanization, the animalizing of man.
Many of the sexual addictions involve a dehumanization of the target person or group.