nonperson
/ˈnɒnpɜː(ɹ)sən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree English non- Latin persōna Anglo-Norman persouneder. Middle English persoun English person English nonperson From non- + person.