nonperson
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 9
/ˈnɒnpɜː(ɹ)sən/
Definition of nonperson
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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Not a real person; a subhuman.
“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?”
“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.”
“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.”
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noun
-
Not a real person; a subhuman.
“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?”
“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.”
“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.”
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Something other than a person; an object.
“Taken together, all the results suggested that discrimination of person from nonperson slides was not controlled by an obvious single stimulus feature.”
“No nonperson is psychologically indistinguishable from you.”
“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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From non- + person.
Words you can make from nonperson
125 playable · top: NONPROS (9 pts)
Best play nonpros 9 points7-letter words
6 words6-letter words
9 words5-letter words
26 words- OPENS 7 pts
- PEONS 7 pts
- PONES 7 pts
- POONS 7 pts
- PORES 7 pts
- PORNO 7 pts
- PORNS 7 pts
- POSER 7 pts
- PRONE 7 pts
- PROSE 7 pts
- PROSO 7 pts
- REPOS 7 pts
- ROPES 7 pts
- SNOOP 7 pts
- SOPOR 7 pts
- SPOON 7 pts
- SPOOR 7 pts
- SPORE 7 pts
- NEONS 5 pts
- NONES 5 pts
- NOONS 5 pts
- NOOSE 5 pts
- RENOS 5 pts
- ROOSE 5 pts
- SENOR 5 pts
- SNORE 5 pts
4-letter words
39 words- EPOS 6 pts
- NOPE 6 pts
- OOPS 6 pts
- OPEN 6 pts
- OPES 6 pts
- PENS 6 pts
- PEON 6 pts
- PESO 6 pts
- PONE 6 pts
- PONS 6 pts
- POON 6 pts
- POOR 6 pts
- POOS 6 pts
- PORE 6 pts
- PORN 6 pts
- POSE 6 pts
- PROS 6 pts
- REPO 6 pts
- REPS 6 pts
- ROPE 6 pts
- EONS 4 pts
- ERNS 4 pts
- EROS 4 pts
- NEON 4 pts
- NOES 4 pts
- NONE 4 pts
- NOON 4 pts
- NOSE 4 pts
- ONES 4 pts
- ONOS 4 pts
- ORES 4 pts
- RENO 4 pts
- ROES 4 pts
- ROOS 4 pts
- ROSE 4 pts
- SONE 4 pts
- SOON 4 pts
- SORE 4 pts
- SORN 4 pts
3-letter words
30 words2-letter words
14 wordsHooks
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