English [ edit ]
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Etymology [ edit ]
de- + humanize
Pronunciation [ edit ]
dehumanize (third-person singular simple present dehumanizes , present participle dehumanizing , simple past and past participle dehumanized )
To take away humanity ; to remove or deny human qualities, characteristics, or attributes; to impersonalize .
1968 , Stewart L. Udall , 1976: Agenda for Tomorrow , page 3:Yet we are dismayed by the failures and forces that dehumanize and defeat the finest dreams and plans of this generation.
2003 , Stephen P. Garvey, editor, Beyond Repair? America's Death Penalty , →ISBN , page 141 :And, in this country, the traditional, ingrained way to dehumanize people, to make both their pain and their individuality irrelevant, is to rely on their race.
2022 July 14, Rafqa Touma, “Melbourne woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent”, in The Guardian [1] :A Melbourne woman says she feels “dehumanised ” after being filmed without consent for a “random act of kindness” TikTok that went viral.
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Translations [ edit ]
to take away humanity
Albanian: çnjerëzoj (sq)
Armenian: ապամարդկայնացնել (hy) ( apamardkaynacʻnel )
Belarusian: дэгуманізава́ць impf or pf ( dehumanizavácʹ )
Bulgarian: дехуманизи́рам impf or pf ( dehumanizíram )
Catalan: deshumanitzar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 獸化 / 兽化 ( shòuhuà ) , 非人化 (zh) ( fēirénhuà )
Czech: dehumanizovat impf or pf
Danish: dehumanisere
Dutch: ontmenselijken (nl) , dehumaniseren
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Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: epäinhimillistää , dehumanisoida , eläimellistää (fi) , ottaa pois ihmisarvo
French: déshumaniser (fr)
Galician: deshumanizar
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: entmenschen , entmenschlichen (de) , dehumanisieren (de)
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Icelandic: ( make inhuman ) gera ómennskan m , ( make an insensible beast ) gera að tilfinningalausri skepnu (is) f
Ido: deshumanigar (io)
Italian: disumanizzare
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Macedonian: дехуманизи́ра impf or pf ( dehumanizíra )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: dehumanisere (no)
Polish: odczłowieczać (pl) impf , odczłowieczyć (pl) pf , dehumanizować impf , zdehumanizować pf
Portuguese: desumanizar (pt)
Romanian: dezumaniza (ro)
Russian: обесчелове́чивать (ru) impf ( obesčelovéčivatʹ ) , обесчелове́чить (ru) pf ( obesčelovéčitʹ ) , дегуманизи́ровать (ru) impf or pf ( degumanizírovatʹ ) , расчелове́чивать (ru) impf ( rasčelovéčivatʹ ) , расчелове́чить (ru) pf ( rasčelovéčitʹ )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: дехуманизирати impf or pf , дехуманизовати impf or pf
Roman: dehumanizirati impf or pf , dehumanizovati impf or pf
Slovak: dehumanizovať impf or pf
Slovene: dehumanizirati impf or pf , razčlovečiti pf
Spanish: deshumanizar (es)
Swedish: avhumanisera (sv)
Turkish: please add this translation if you can
Ukrainian: дегуманізува́ти impf or pf ( dehumanizuváty ) , розлю́днювати impf ( rozljúdnjuvaty ) , розлю́днити pf ( rozljúdnyty )