antiperson
antiperson noun: somebody who is not a person, or not accepted as a person, or who violates the conventions of personhood.
Noun
antiperson (plural antipersons or antipeople)
- Somebody who is not a person, or not accepted as a person, or who violates the conventions of personhood.
- The Economic Man of White Collar led Mills to formulate a parallel cultural variant: “the cheerful robot.” To such an anti-person, history was little more than a blind drift of incomprehensible forces, which, he mechanically reasoned, obeyed the classic law of Fate (“Whatever is, must therefore...1985, Irving Lewis Horowitz, C. Wright Mills: An American Utopian
- I'm not even a whole person anymore. Maybe not even a half person. I'm a negative person, an anti-person. I'm the opposite of everything human.2010, Louise Christine, The Huntress Chronicles: Some Will Rise; Some Will Fall, page 226
- A hypothetical person made out of antimatter.
- There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands!1988, Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, page 75
- If a person shook hands with an antiperson, both would be annihilated in a shower of gamma ray greetings.2002, Roy A. Gallant, Meteorite Hunter: The Search for Siberian Meteorite Craters, page 45
Forms of antiperson
| plural | antipersons |
|---|---|
| plural | antipeople |
Origin of antiperson
From anti- + person.
Questions about antiperson
- What does antiperson mean?
- Antiperson means somebody who is not a person, or not accepted as a person, or who violates the conventions of personhood.
- What part of speech is antiperson?
- Antiperson is a noun.
- What is the plural of antiperson?
- The plural of antiperson is antipersons.
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