Object vs Nonperson - What's the difference?
object | nonperson |
A thing that has physical existence.
The goal, end or purpose of something.
* 2000, Phyllis Barkas Goldman & John Grigni, Monkeyshines on Ancient Cultures
(grammar) The noun phrase which is an internal complement of a verb phrase or a prepositional phrase. In a verb phrase with a transitive action verb, it is typically the receiver of the action.
A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.
(computing) In object-oriented programming, an instantiation of a class or structure.
(obsolete) Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
* Chapman
To disagree with something or someone; especially in a Court of Law, to raise an objection.
(obsolete) To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or adverse reason.
* Spenser
* Addison
* Whitgift
(obsolete) To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.
* Fairfax
* Hooker
* Alexander Pope
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.
As nouns the difference between object and nonperson
is that object is a thing that has physical existence while nonperson is not a real person; a subhuman.As a verb object
is to disagree with something or someone; especially in a Court of Law, to raise an objection.object
English
Noun
(en noun)- The object of tlachtli was to keep the rubber ball from touching the ground while trying to push it to the opponent's endline.
- Mary Jane had been the object of Peter's affection for years.
- The convertible, once object''' of his desire, was now the '''object of his hatred.
- He, advancing close / Up to the lake, past all the rest, arose / In glorious object .
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (thing) article, item, thing * (person or thing toward which an emotion is directed) target * See alsoDerived terms
* art object * celestial object * deep-sky object * depicted object * direct object * exponential object * first-class object * foreign object * found object * function object * God object * Herbig-Haro object * immutable object * indirect object * initial object * Kuiper belt object/KBO * mental object * Messier object * mock object * mutable object * natural object * null object * object ball * object blindness * object code * object complement * object glass * object language * object lens * object lesson * object orientation * object pronoun * object space * object-control * objecthood * objectify * objectionable * objective * object-oriented * physical object * prepositional object * retained object * second-class object * sex object * superluminal object * terminal object * third-class object * unidentified flying object/UFOSee also
* subjectVerb
(en verb)- I object to the proposal to build a new airport terminal.
- He gave to him to object his heinous crime.
- Others object the poverty of the nation.
- The book giveth liberty to object any crime against such as are to be ordered.
- Of less account some knight thereto object , / Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove.
- some strong impediment or other objecting itself
- Pallas to their eyes / The mist objected , and condensed the skies.
