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Definition of Dehumanize
1. Verb. Deprive of human qualities. "Life in poverty has dehumanized them"
Generic synonyms: Degrade, Demean, Disgrace, Put Down, Take Down
Derivative terms: Dehumanisation, Dehumanization
Antonyms: Humanize
2. Verb. Make mechanical or routine.
Definition of Dehumanize
1. v. t. To divest of human qualities, such as pity, tenderness, etc.; as, dehumanizing influences.
Definition of Dehumanize
1. Verb. To take away humanity, to remove or deny human qualities, characteristics, or attributes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dehumanize
1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dehumanize
Literary usage of Dehumanize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forty Years of It by Brand Whitlock (1914)
"These speakers, however, who would dehumanize everything yet cannot after all
dehumanize themselves, would frequently court arrest in the belief that the ..."
2. An Introduction to Social Ethics: The Social Conscience in a Democracy by John Moffatt Mecklin (1920)
"Where there is nothing to relieve this conservatism it tends to dehumanize the
worker. In spite of these advantages the tendency of the machine process to ..."
3. Charles Dickens: The Man and His Work by Edwin Percy Whipple, Arlo Bates (1912)
"His wish is granted, and he finds to his horror that the fatal gift tends to
dehumanize him, and to dehumanize those with whom he is placed in contact; ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"I am concerned with a more general point—the need to be careful not to dehumanize
our logic and reason or to deceive ourselves into thinking that being ..."
5. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"Such formulae disinfect the soul of interest and dehumanize nature. They are just
as much and just as truly weeds to the boy as his mythopoetic sentiments ..."
6. Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1910)
"In “The Stones of Venice,” he arraigned the modern system of industry for this
tendency [to dehumanize men], in words as trenchant as any he has ever ..."
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