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nonhuman

nonhuman adjective: not human; not of the human race.

Adjective

nonhuman (not comparable)

  1. Not human; not of the human race.
    • nonhuman animals
    • nonhuman agents
    Synonyms:
    ahuman

Noun

nonhuman (plural nonhumans)

  1. A creature or thing that is not human.
    • The dialectical obverse of this use of opium is the fear that opium will turn humans into nonhumans or antihumans.2002, Keith McMahon, The Fall of the God of Money, page 190
    Synonyms:
    extrahuman

Examples of nonhuman in a sentence

  • Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us?
  • Polemology locates popular culture in a long (even archaic and nonhuman) tradition of warfare.
  • And if they do not, they are either subhuman or nonhuman.

All 13 example sentences with nonhuman

Synonyms of nonhuman

Forms of nonhuman

Adjective
alternative formnon-human
Noun
pluralnonhumans

Origin of nonhuman

From non- + human.

Words formed from nonhuman

Questions about nonhuman

What does nonhuman mean?
Nonhuman means not human; not of the human race.
What part of speech is nonhuman?
Nonhuman can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near nonhuman in the dictionary

  1. nonhouseholders
  2. nonhousekeeping
  3. nonhousewife
  4. nonhousewives
  5. nonhousing
  6. nonhuman
  7. nonhumane
  8. nonhumanist
  9. nonhumanistic
  10. nonhumanists
  11. nonhumanitarian

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