Usually means: Reducing a person to non-human.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word dehumanizing:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. dehumanizing: Merriam-Webster
  2. dehumanizing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dehumanizing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Dehumanizing, dehumanizing: Wordnik
  5. dehumanizing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. dehumanizing: Wiktionary
  7. dehumanizing: Dictionary.com
  8. Dehumanizing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. dehumanizing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dehumanizing: Medical dictionary

(Note: See dehumanize as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dehumanizing)

▸ noun:  An act of dehumanization.
▸ adjective:  Alternative spelling of dehumanising [Causing dehumanization.]

Similar:
nonhuman, unhuman, dehumaniser, deindividualization, degrading, dephysicalization, dispersonification, abjectification, desocialization, alienation, more...

Opposite:
humanizing, personifying, empathizing

Adjectives:
most, such, military, complete, worst



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Similar:
nonhuman, unhuman, dehumaniser, deindividualization, degrading, dephysicalization, dispersonification, abjectification, desocialization, alienation, more...

Opposite:
humanizing, personifying, empathizing

Adjectives:
most, such, military, complete, worst



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