Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dehumanisation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.56 in modern English

Syllables: de-hu-man-i-sa-tion
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of dehumanization.

British usage; Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Jada's case happened within the wider context of a world that objectifies women, and hypersexualises black women, in particular, to the point of dehumanisation."
"When your priority is free speech and ours is our lives, you don’t understand we can’t afford to pay for your privilege with our dehumanisations, the first step to opening us up for any evil."
"But I didn't want to talk about Claude. I wanted to talk about the user, about addiction and dehumanisation, about power and accountability."

Etymology

From dehumanise + -ation or de- + humanisation.

Usage

Inflected Forms

dehumanisations (plural)

Synonyms

dehumanization

Questions

What does dehumanisation mean?: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of dehumanization.
Where does dehumanisation come from?: From dehumanise + -ation or de- + humanisation.

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