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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)

  1. 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
  2. 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

pluralantipersons
pluralantipeople

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.

Words near antiperson in the dictionary

  1. antiperoxidative
  2. antipersecution
  3. antipersistence
  4. antipersistent
  5. antipersister
  6. antiperson
  7. antipersonnel
  8. antipersons
  9. antiperspirant
  10. antiperspirants
  11. antiperthite

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