dehumanized

Thân thiện

A person sits alone in a stark, empty room, feeling utterly dehumanized.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Divested of human qualities or attributes: Refers to something or someone that has been stripped of the characteristics that make them human, such as compassion, individuality, or dignity. Often used to describe conditions or treatments that reduce people to a subhuman or mechanistic state.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The prisoners lived in dehumanized conditions, treated more like numbers than people.
  • The propaganda was designed to create a dehumanized image of the enemy.
  • Working on the monotonous assembly line left him feeling dehumanized.

Advanced Usage

• "Dehumanized" as a descriptor for systems or processes: Used to critique institutions, technologies, or policies that treat individuals in an impersonal, mechanistic way.
  • The new software led to a dehumanized customer service experience, with no option to speak to a real person.
• Psychological state: Can describe a person's internal feeling of having lost their human essence.
  • After years of enduring constant criticism, she felt completely dehumanized.

Variants and Related Words

• Dehumanize (verb): To deprive of human qualities or attributes.
  • The regime used torture to dehumanize its opponents.
• Dehumanization (noun): The process of dehumanizing or the state of being dehumanized.
  • The dehumanization of workers is a serious concern in some industries.

Synonyms

• Brutalized: Treated brutally, made brutal.
• Degraded: Reduced in dignity or quality.
• Objectified: Treated as an object rather than a person.
• Mechanized: Made mechanical or automatic, devoid of human feeling.

Related Phrases

• To render dehumanized: A more formal way to express the action of causing dehumanization.
  • The oppressive system was designed to render its subjects dehumanized and compliant.

Related Idioms

• Treated like a cog in a machine: An idiom describing a dehumanized state where an individual is seen as a small, replaceable part of a large system.
  • In the vast corporation, employees often felt dehumanized, treated like cogs in a machine.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. divested of human qualities or attributes

Từ đồng nghĩa

• dehumanised
• unhuman