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Meaning of "infrahuman" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INFRAHUMAN

infrahuman  [ˌɪnfrəˈhjuːmən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INFRAHUMAN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Infrahuman is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES INFRAHUMAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Infrahumanisation

Infrahumanisation refers to the tacitly held belief that one's ingroup is more human than an outgroup. The term was coined by Jacques-Philippe Leyens and colleagues in early 2000 to distinguish what they argue to be an everyday phenomenon from denial of humanness associated with extreme intergroup violence such as genocide. According to Leyens and colleagues, infrahumanisation arises when people view their ingroup and outgroup as 'essentially' different and accordingly reserve the 'human essence' for the ingroup and deny it to the outgroup. The belief that the outgroup is less human than the ingroup is seldom consciously endorsed by individuals and instead is reflected in the way people tacitly think about the outgroup. Researchers have typically investigated infrahumanisation by looking at the types of emotions people believe ingroup and outgroup members possess. Some emotions are considered unique to humans whereas others are viewed as common to both humans and animals. In a series of studies Leyens and colleagues have widely replicated the finding that people attribute uniquely human emotions to the ingroup, but not the outgroup.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INFRAHUMAN


antihuman
ˌæntɪˈhjuːmən
crewman
ˈkruːmən
decuman
ˈdɛkjuːmən
human
ˈhjuːmən
ichneumon
ɪkˈnjuːmən
inhuman
ɪnˈhjuːmən
Newman
ˈnjuːmən
nonhuman
ˌnɒnˈhjuːmən
panhuman
pænˈhjuːmən
prehuman
priːˈhjuːmən
preterhuman
ˌpriːtəˈhjuːmən
protohuman
ˌprəʊtəʊˈhjuːmən
Schumann
ˈʃuːmən
subhuman
sʌbˈhjuːmən
superhuman
ˌsuːpəˈhjuːmən
Trueman
ˈtruːmən
Truman
ˈtruːmən
ultrahuman
ˌʌltrəˈhjuːmən
unhuman
ʌnˈhjuːmən
Yuman
ˈjuːmən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INFRAHUMAN

infra
infra dig
infracostal
infract
infraction
infractor
infragrant
infralapsarian
infralapsarianism
inframaxillary
infrangibility
infrangible
infrangibleness
infrangibly
infraorbital
infraposed
infraposition
infrared
infrared astronomy
infrared photography

WORDS THAT END LIKE INFRAHUMAN

as one man
batman
cayman
chairman
Coleman
freeman
german
half-human
Hanuman
Hoffman
man
Oman
quadruman
roman
Schuman
superman
to a man
virtual human
woman
zaman

Synonyms and antonyms of infrahuman in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «infrahuman» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INFRAHUMAN

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

Translator English - Chinese

类人猿
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

infrahumano
570 millions of speakers

English

infrahuman
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

infrahuman
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

infrahuman
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

infrahuman
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

infra-humano
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

infrahuman
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

infra-humain
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Infrahuman
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

infrahumanen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

infrahuman
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

infrahuman
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Infrahuman
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

infrahuman
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

infrahuman
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

इन्फ्रुमन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

infrahuman
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

infraumano
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

infrahuman
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

infrahuman
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

infraumane
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υπάνθρωπα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

infrahuman
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

infrahuman
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

infrahuman
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of infrahuman

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INFRAHUMAN»

The term «infrahuman» is used very little and occupies the 182.726 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INFRAHUMAN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «infrahuman» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «infrahuman» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INFRAHUMAN»

Discover the use of infrahuman in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to infrahuman and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Ethics
Genetic Engineering of Infrahuman life29 - scientist's intention of genetic engineering on the infrahuman sphere is the construction of organisms with desired traits. Examples are the breeding of cattle to gain more milk or the cross breeding of ...
2
A Method for Scaling in Infrahuman Species: Time Perception ...
A method of scaling in infrahuman species, which consists of introducing additional cue values on a dimension for which a conditional discrimination has been established, was described.
Isaac Behar, United States. Army Medical Research Laboratory, Fort Knox, Ky, 1962
3
Panpsychism and the Religious Attitude
In contrast, the con- clusions of the analogical inferences in which mentality is attributed to infrahuman creatures can never be independently confirmed. The only basis for concluding that mentality of any form is present are the behavioral and ...
David S. Clarke, 2012
4
Theory In Anthropol Liban
That is, while the psychobiological characteristics of the hominids would seemto be relevant to an ex planation of the emergence of cultural traditions from their infrahuman background as well as the early development of these traditions, there ...
ROBERT A MANNERS, DAVID KAPLAN, Senior Labor Market Specialist David Kaplan, PhD, 2013
5
Levels of Cognitive Development
Species Differences in Selective Encoding Chapter 2 reported that when infrahuman animals are tested on the optional shift procedure they are disposed to make nonreversal shifts. If the human ontogenetic trend can be explained as ...
Tracy S. Kendler, 2013
6
Anthropological Theory
That is, while the psychobiological characteristics of the hominids would seem to be relevant to an explanation of the emergence of cultural traditions from their infrahuman background as well as the early development of these traditions, there ...
Robert Alan Manners, David Kaplan
7
The Crowd is Untruth: The Existential Critique of Mass ...
It is not our own creation or responsibility as a usage, yet it is our own as an individual performance. Like all properties of the infrahuman people-collective, this usage may at times be understood as "mechanized," "soulless," or even tyrannical.
Howard Nelson Tuttle, 1996
8
Interactionism: Exposition and Critique
That is because the conversation of gestures is associated with infrahuman activity, and because ultimately the social life of humans is carried on in terms of language and not in terms of gestures. Gestures have import for human activity, but ...
Larry T. Reynolds, 1993
9
Sensitive Periods in Development: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
INFRAHUMAN. M. PSYCHOBIOLOGY. AND. HUMAN. NEUROPSYCHOLOGY. The first appearance of sensitive periods in anatomical study seems to have lent the phenomenon credibility in psychology and may even have motivated ...
M. H. Bornstein, 2014
10
Symbolic Interaction: An Introduction to Social Psychology
This inclusion is deemed necessary to understanding the distinctive character of human conduct, which Mead considers a qualitatively different emergent from infrahuman behavior. Watson's behaviorism, on the other hand, reduces human ...
Larry T. Reynolds, Nancy J. Herman, 1994

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INFRAHUMAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term infrahuman is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Transhumanism in India: Between faith and modernity
... it is stated that "Changing the genetic identity of man as a human person through the production of an infrahuman being is radically immoral". «Businessinsider India, Feb 15»
2
Why is there such a culture of misinformation surrounding the case …
Paul Gilroy advances the term “infrahuman”, to describe those bodies marked by race, whose alterity condemns them to worthlessness. «New Statesman, May 14»
3
Talk to the Women!
... weird way, extra-human -- they could do things that the human body by itself could not achieve -- and at the same time, infrahuman (unworthy ... «Huffington Post, Nov 12»
4
Humanitarian Aid in Haiti
... participants in the focus groups described the conditions of the emergency shelter solution as 'infrahuman', 'unbearable', or simply 'very bad. «CounterPunch, Dec 11»
5
Haiti: Cholera Down but People Still "Abandoned Like Stray Dogs"
... and sometimes even defecate, in the open, use unchlorinated water, lack hand-washing facilities and live in squalid, infrahuman conditions ... «Huffington Post, Sep 11»
6
Business as Usual in Colombia
Thus, in order to keep vast privileges of a few amidst infrahuman conditions of the majority, the elite needs to have an iron grip on political ... «CounterPunch, Jul 11»
7
Javier Sicilia's Open Letter to Mexico's Politicians and Criminals
We have had it up to here because your violence as become infrahuman – not animal, as animals do not do what you do – but subhuman, ... «The Narco News Bulletin, Apr 11»
8
ARGENTINA: Expansion of Agricultural Frontier Endangers Native …
The Mandela Centre reports that near the Chaco district of Miraflores, Wichí communities live in infrahuman conditions. In 1996, the authorities ... «Inter Press Service, Sep 07»

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