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If you can laugh with somebody and relate to somebody, it becomes harder to dehumanize them. I think that most of what we are constantly bombarded with in terms of media leads you to a creation of 'the Other' and a dehumanization of 'the Other,' and it's very much an us-versus-them conversation.
Jehane Noujaim

Meaning of "dehumanization" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DEHUMANIZATION

dehumanization  [diːˌhjuːmənaɪˈzeɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEHUMANIZATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dehumanization is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DEHUMANIZATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Dehumanization

Dehumanization or dehumanisation describes the denial of “humanness” to others and is theorized to take on two forms: animalistic dehumanization, which is employed on a largely intergroup basis, and mechanistic dehumanization, which is employed on a largely interpersonal basis. Dehumanization can occur discursively (e.g., idiomatic language that likens certain human beings to non-human animals, verbal abuse, erasing one's voice from discourse), symbolically (e.g., imagery), or physically (e.g., chattel slavery, physical abuse, refusing eye contact). Dehumanization often ignores the target's individuality (i.e., the creative and interesting aspects of his or her personality) and prevents one from showing compassion towards stigmatized groups. Dehumanization may be carried out by a social institution (such as a state, school, or family), interpersonally, or even within the self. Dehumanization can be unintentional, especially on the part of individuals, as with some types of de facto racism. State-organized dehumanization has historically been directed against perceived political, racial, ethnic, national, or religious minority groups.

Definition of dehumanization in the English dictionary

The definition of dehumanization in the dictionary is the process or fact of dehumanizing.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DEHUMANIZATION


authorization
ˌɔːθəraɪˈzeɪʃən
characterization
ˌkærɪktəraɪˈzeɪʃən
civilization
ˌsɪvɪlaɪˈzeɪʃən
customization
ˌkʌstəmaɪˈzeɪʃən
globalization
ˌɡləʊbəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
hospitalisation
ˌhɒspɪtəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
hospitalization
ˌhɒspɪtəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
hybridization
ˌhaɪbrɪdaɪˈzeɪʃən
localization
ˌləʊkəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
novelization
ˌnɒvəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
optimisation
ˌɒptɪmaɪˈzeɪʃən
optimization
ˌɒptɪmaɪˈzeɪʃən
organisation
ˌɔːɡənaɪˈzeɪʃən
organization
ˌɔːɡənaɪˈzeɪʃən
realization
ˌrɪəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
specialization
ˌspeʃəlaɪˈzeɪʃən
stabilization
ˌsteɪbɪlaɪˈzeɪʃən
synchronization
ˌsɪŋkrənaɪˈzeɪʃən
utilization
ˌjuːtɪlaɪˈzeɪʃən
visualization
ˌvɪʒʊəlaɪˈzeɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEHUMANIZATION

dehiscence
dehiscent
dehorn
dehorner
dehort
dehortation
dehortative
dehortatory
dehorter
Dehra Dun
dehumanize
dehumanizing
dehumidification
dehumidified
dehumidifier
dehumidifies
dehumidify
dehydrate
dehydrated
dehydrater

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEHUMANIZATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
association
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
education
evaluation
excitation

Synonyms and antonyms of dehumanization in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «dehumanization» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEHUMANIZATION

Find out the translation of dehumanization to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dehumanization from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dehumanization» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

非人化
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

deshumanización
570 millions of speakers

English

dehumanization
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अमानवीकरण
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التجريد من الإنسانية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

дегуманизация
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

desumanização
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অমানবীকরণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

déshumanisation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dehumanisasi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Entmenschlichung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

非人間化
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

비인간
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dehumanization
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phi nhân
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மனித நேயமற்ற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अमानवीकरण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

insan görmeme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

disumanizzazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dehumanizacji
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дегуманізація
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dezumanizare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

dehumanization
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ontmensliking
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

avhumanisering
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dehumanisering
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dehumanization

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEHUMANIZATION»

The term «dehumanization» is quite widely used and occupies the 54.900 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DEHUMANIZATION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dehumanization

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QUOTES WITH «DEHUMANIZATION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word dehumanization.
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Jehane Noujaim
If you can laugh with somebody and relate to somebody, it becomes harder to dehumanize them. I think that most of what we are constantly bombarded with in terms of media leads you to a creation of 'the Other' and a dehumanization of 'the Other,' and it's very much an us-versus-them conversation.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEHUMANIZATION»

Discover the use of dehumanization in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dehumanization and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The dehumanization of man
Discusses a current trend toward a dehumanization of mankind through technological development and violence, examines the devitalization of society, personality, culture, and politics, and explains how to combat such evolution
Ashley Montagu, Floyd W. Matson, 1983
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Ideology and Insanity: Essays on the Psychiatric ...
This volume contains the earliest essays, going back more than thirty years, in which the author staked out his position on 'the nature, scope, methods, and values of psychiatry.'
Thomas Stephen Szasz, 1991
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Humiliation, Degradation, Dehumanization: Human Dignity Violated
This volume will be of interest to social and moral philosophers, legal and human rights theorists, practitioners and students.
Paulus Kaufmann, Hannes Kuch, Christian Neuhäuser, 2010
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Theology and Dehumanization: Trauma, Grief, and Pathological ...
In this posthumous volume Jill Anne Kowalik analyzes pathological grief in 17th and 18th-century Germany.
Jill Anne Kowalik, Gail Kathleen Hart, 2009
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Mortal Engines: The Science of Performance and the ...
Will it be read by those who have the power to influence events?" -- Allen Guttmann, International Journal of the History of Sport 11 (1994): 516, 517 "Mortal Engines is a horror story.
John M. Hoberman, 2001
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Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others
Less Than Human is a chilling indictment of our nature, and is as timely as it is relevant.
David Livingstone Smith, 2011
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Advances in Understanding Humanness and Dehumanization
In this part, we present empirical research that has been conducted thus far on the topic of offender dehumanization. Although research on offender dehumanization is still in its infancy, studies that have been conducted so far suggest that ...
Paul G. Bain, Jeroen Vaes, Jacques Philippe Leyens, 2013
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Sex and Dehumanization
Some of the more extreme activities of sexual emancipation are to me no ' breakthrough' into 'liberation', but rather seem to belong to such extreme dehumanization that we can only speak of an incipient fascism. Yet of course, the echo of ...
‎1972
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Man Today: Problems, Values and Fulfillment
Chapter 5 TECHNOLOGY AND THE CRISIS OF DEHUMANIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES TODAY The U. S., with 6 per cent of the world's population, produces (1969) 44 per cent of the world capitalist industrial output. This high ...
Howard L. Parsons, 1979
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The Dehumanization of Art: And Other Essays on Art, Culture, ...
" In the essay, originally published in Spanish in 1925, Ortega grappled philosophically with the newness of nonrepresentational art and sought to make it more understandable to a public confused by it.
José Ortega y Gasset, 1968

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEHUMANIZATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dehumanization is used in the context of the following news items.
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Next time someone questions America's history of racism, show …
America has a long history of systemic racism: From the dehumanization of black people to justify slavery to the policies of segregation and ... «Vox, Jul 15»
2
Lifetime Renews 'UnReal', a Second Season Confirmed for the …
Shapiro and Noxon confirmed that the horrific dehumanization of contestants that goes on producing "Everlasting" is inspired by what actually ... «Indie Wire, Jul 15»
3
How White People Can Prevent Attacks Like The Charleston Shooting
In my adopted home state, old prejudices have become a modern means of dehumanization, and passive acceptance of that dynamic has ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
4
Madness, Music and Modernity: Studying Structural Oppression …
Many other groups also suffer under similar processes of dehumanization. Homosexuality wasn't taken out of the main diagnostic handbook for ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
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Palace programs to range from 18th century costumes to World War I
... adequate to their personal artistic vision and to the unparalleled violence and dehumanization they witnessed around them during WWI. «New Bern Sun Journal, Jul 15»
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OP ED: Botched, Bewildering, Descent into Guantanamo Torture
Step one in the unhealthy pursuit of power is the dehumanization of “the enemy.” The consequences of what we do after that will always haunt ... «HNN Huntingtonnews.net, Jul 15»
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Ted 2, Seth MacFarlane, and the Age of the Brogressive
... but still delights in the exploitation of images of black suffering, the fetishization and dehumanization of black sexuality, and the need to make ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
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Rehumanizing Gaza
Such depictions further the dehumanization of Palestinians. By failing to see Gaza as a polity with many debates raging, and many views being ... «Truth-Out, Jul 15»
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John Green Is a Hero of the Teen Internet. Is He to Blame for the …
Aligned her with dehumanization, hate, the misuse of language, and “the actual sexual abuse of children.” Green's swift and hyperbolic ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»
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Blackface Is Cool And Good Because Nick Cannon
... the U.S., a genre of entertainment that was created to popularize and enforce the dehumanization of Africans in the 19th century and beyond. «Complex, Jul 15»

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