dehumanization

[ dee-hyoo-muh-nahy-zey-shuhnor, often, -yoo- ]

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noun

the act of regarding, representing, or treating a person or group as less than human:
Dehumanization of the enemy is often what sustains the rationale for a war.
Before trafficked humans are fully enslaved, they are drugged, tortured, and abused as part of the process of dehumanization.
the process of depriving a person or population of human qualities or attributes such as compassion, dignity, individuality, etc.:
When science is not touched by a sense of moral values, it works—as it has done fairly consistently over the past century—toward a complete dehumanization of the social order.

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