Crossword clues for nonperson
nonperson
Wiktionary
n. 1 Not a real person; a subhuman. 2 Not a legal entity. 3 Something other than a person; an object.
WordNet
n. 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 as unpersons" [syn: unperson]
Wikipedia
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, or existence. The term also refers to people whose death is unverifiable and about which inquiries result in a "blank wall" of "nobody knows that".
Usage examples of "nonperson".
Beautiful little innocent climbs into my lap fell on my neck with kisses while we put together this fiction of appearing as the nonperson my joy!
All the nonperson babies born in the past three months will all be taken by the elders of the council and exposed on the slopes about the ville.
Like every other nonperson at Hebron, Enuily, Tiffany, and Polly knew their status and were intimidated by it, and by the two pretty, popular girls who confronted them.
Thanks to her damned diabetes, Jessica knew she was now reduced to the ranks of a nonperson, too.
Gregory would not have been good, he knew, but he believed that his chances with this deadly nonperson of a man were nonexistent.
It had been a long hard haul from that nonperson to the woman she was now--harder than anyone knew.
After a while, it began to sink in just what kind of a nonperson you are.
Overnight she could become another nonperson to be manipulated along with the countless other statistics.
The credit chip implanted in Bisesa's arm was more than five years old, and its internal data were long since scrambled: in a time of global electronic tagging she was a nonperson.
And imagine the extent of the raw material, a little nation of nonpersons by the millions.