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nonpersons

nonpersons is the plural of nonperson.

Meaning of nonperson

Noun

nonperson (plural nonpersons or nonpeople)

  1. Not a real person; a subhuman.
    • As all lives must end, do you prefer to die as a nonperson, forgotten in a nursing home and totally stripped of dignity and independence?1989, Michael C. Kearl, Endings: A Sociology of Death and Dying, page 146
  2. Something other than a person; an object.
    • Taken together, all the results suggested that discrimination of person from nonperson slides was not controlled by an obvious single stimulus feature.1995, Roger K. R. Thompson, “Natural and Relational Concepts in Animals”, in Comparative Approaches to Cognitive Science, page 179

Questions about nonpersons

What is nonpersons the plural of?
Nonpersons is the plural of nonperson.

Words near nonpersons in the dictionary

  1. nonpersonality
  2. nonpersonalized
  3. nonpersonally
  4. nonpersonification
  5. nonpersonnel
  6. nonpersons
  7. nonpersuasive
  8. nonpertinent
  9. nonpertubative
  10. nonperturbative
  11. nonperturbatively

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