antihuman

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Definition of antihuman

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Opposed to humanity.
    “What more fierce than the scorn and more violent than the abuse poured on the member of a trades-union whose sound moral feeling rebels against the iniquities sanctioned by its collective conscience, albeit that conscience be essentially antisocial, if not antihuman?”
    “I would like this antihuman woman to know that she has played right into the hands of abusers everywhere by making this claim.”
    “I've rarely seen a sculptural object express contradictions so well: they're both human and antihuman, squat and vertical (because of the drapery folds), heavy and light.”
    “Isaacson reports that Musk’s fractured relationship with Jenna, who is trans, partly led to Musk’s rightward turn toward libertarianism and questioning what he considers the “woke-mind-virus, which is fundamentally antiscience, antimerit, and antihuman.””
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adj

  1. Opposed to humanity.
    “What more fierce than the scorn and more violent than the abuse poured on the member of a trades-union whose sound moral feeling rebels against the iniquities sanctioned by its collective conscience, albeit that conscience be essentially antisocial, if not antihuman?”
    “I would like this antihuman woman to know that she has played right into the hands of abusers everywhere by making this claim.”
    “I've rarely seen a sculptural object express contradictions so well: they're both human and antihuman, squat and vertical (because of the drapery folds), heavy and light.”
    “Isaacson reports that Musk’s fractured relationship with Jenna, who is trans, partly led to Musk’s rightward turn toward libertarianism and questioning what he considers the “woke-mind-virus, which is fundamentally antiscience, antimerit, and antihuman.””
  2. (not-comparable)Describing an antibody that reacts with any antigen found in (and with some relevant degree of specificity to) humans.

noun

  1. A being that opposes, or typifies the opposite of, the human race.
    “The dialectical obverse of this use of opium is the fear that opium will turn humans into nonhumans or antihumans. Wild beasts, addicts, and Orientals are alike feared as antihumans, negations of humans.”
    “These witches, the human antihumans, are the most prevalent and present evil in the world.”
  2. A human being made of antimatter.
    “Heavy antielements such as antigold and antiuranium belong to science fiction and not to science. So do antihumans.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From anti- + human.

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