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Nonperson vs Subhuman - What's the difference?

nonperson | subhuman |

Subhuman is a synonym of nonperson.



As nouns the difference between nonperson and subhuman

is that nonperson is not a real person; a subhuman while subhuman is anything which is less than human.

As an adjective subhuman is

less than human; lacking characteristics of a human.

nonperson

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Not a real person; a subhuman.
  • *1989 , Michael C. Kearl, Endings: A Sociology of Death and Dying , page 146
  • *:As all lives must end, do you prefer to die as a nonperson , forgotten in a nursing home and totally stripped of dignity and independence?
  • *1994 , Lisa J. McIntyre, Law in the Sociological Enterprise , page 92
  • *:Arguably, what is so hateful about a hate crime is that it is an attempt by some individual or group to treat a Person as a Nonperson .
  • *1998 , John E. Tropman, Does America Hate the Poor? , page 6
  • *:How does hate work? [...] One answer is that the poor person (or the Jew, or the Asian, or the Native American, or whoever) becomes, intellectually, linguistically, and emotionally, a "lessperson," and then a nonperson .
  • Not a legal entity.
  • Something other than a person; an object.
  • *1995 , Roger K. R. Thompson, Natural and Relational Concepts in Animals'', in ''Comparative Approaches to Cognitive Science , page 179
  • *:Taken together, all the results suggested that discrimination of person from nonperson slides was not controlled by an obvious single stimulus feature.
  • *2001 , Eric T. Olson, A Compound of Two Substances'', in ''Soul, Body, and Survival , page 77
  • *:No nonperson is psychologically indistinguishable from you.
  • *2002 , Ritva Laury, Interaction, grounding, and third-person referential forms'', in ''Grounding: The Epistemic Footing of Deixis and Reference (Frank Brisard, ed.), page 85
  • *:For example, Benveniste [...] discusses the connection of first- and second-person pronouns with the speech situation, and even goes as far as to claim that the third person is a nonperson , since the referents of third-person pronouns are not speech-act participants.

    • Synonyms

    * subhuman * lessperson

    subhuman

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Less than human; lacking characteristics of a human.
    • To say he is subhuman is to make a grave insult; whether to him or to humanity is the question.
    We say dolphin intelligence is subhuman ; I suspect dolphins say our intelligence is subdolphin.

    Synonyms

    * neanderthal * troglodyte * Untermensch

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything which is less than human.

    • Synonyms

    * nonperson * lessperson