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antihuman

antihuman adjective: opposed to humanity.

Adjective

antihuman (comparative more antihuman, superlative most antihuman)

  1. Opposed to humanity.
    • What more fierce than the scorn and more violent than the abuse poured on the member of a trades-union whose sound moral feeling rebels against the iniquities sanctioned by its collective conscience, albeit that conscience be essentially antisocial, if not antihuman?1836, Henry Maudsley, Life in Mind & Conduct: Studies of Organic in Human Nature, Macmillan and Company, Limited, page 135
    • I would like this antihuman woman to know that she has played right into the hands of abusers everywhere by making this claim.1991 April 26, Name withheld, “Our Abusive Critics”, in Chicago Reader
  2. (not comparable) Describing an antibody that reacts with any antigen found in (and with some relevant degree of specificity to) humans.

Noun

antihuman (plural antihumans)

  1. A being that opposes, or typifies the opposite of, the human race.
    • The dialectical obverse of this use of opium is the fear that opium will turn humans into nonhumans or antihumans. Wild beasts, addicts, and Orientals are alike feared as antihumans, negations of humans.2002, Keith McMahon, The Fall of the God of Money, page 190
    • These witches, the human antihumans, are the most prevalent and present evil in the world.2011, Magnus Course, Becoming Mapuche: Person and Ritual in Indigenous Chile, page 41
  2. A human being made of antimatter.
    • Heavy antielements such as antigold and antiuranium belong to science fiction and not to science. So do antihumans.2021, Helge Kragh, Between The Earth And The Heavens, page 65

Forms of antihuman

Adjective
comparativemore antihuman
superlativemost antihuman
alternative formanti-human
Noun
pluralantihumans

Origin of antihuman

From anti- + human.

Questions about antihuman

What does antihuman mean?
Antihuman means opposed to humanity.
What part of speech is antihuman?
Antihuman can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near antihuman in the dictionary

  1. antihorse
  2. antihospital
  3. antihotel
  4. antihuff
  5. antihum
  6. antihuman
  7. antihumanism
  8. antihumanisms
  9. antihumanist
  10. antihumanistic
  11. antihumanists

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