dehumanizing

dehumanizing is the alternative spelling of dehumanising.

dehumanizing is the present participle and gerund of dehumanize.

Meaning of dehumanising

dehumanising (comparative more dehumanising, superlative most dehumanising)

dehumanize (third-person singular simple present dehumanizes, present participle dehumanizing, simple past and past participle dehumanized)

(transitive) To take away humanity; to remove or deny human qualities, characteristics, or attributes; to impersonalize.
- In its consistently logical form Quietism makes communion between man and God an impossibility by annulling the distinction between them, ultimately reducing God to a vague and empty abstraction, and dehumanizing man.1919, James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Louis Herbert Gray, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics: Picts-Sacraments, page 535

dehumanizing (plural dehumanizings)

An act of dehumanization.
- […] to support or agree with the persecutions, beatings, dehumanizings, insults, murders, genocides, and oppressions of a perpetrator's target […]2008, M. W. Sphero, Religion: The Defamer of God, page 210

What does dehumanizing mean?: Dehumanizing means an act of dehumanization.
What is dehumanizing the alternative spelling of?: Dehumanizing is the alternative spelling of dehumanising.
What part of speech is dehumanizing?: Dehumanizing is a noun.
What is the plural of dehumanizing?: The plural of dehumanizing is dehumanizings.

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