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antihuman en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + human.

Meanings

1. Opposed to humanity.
   • What more fierce than the scorn and more violent than the abuse poured on the member of a trades-union whose sound moral feeling rebels against the iniquities sanctioned by its collective conscience, albeit that conscience be essentially antisocial, if not antihuman? 1836, Henry Maudsley, Life in Mind & Conduct: Studies of Organic in Human Nature, Macmillan and Company, Limited, page 135:
   • Isaacson reports that Musk’s fractured relationship with Jenna, who is trans, partly led to Musk’s rightward turn toward libertarianism and questioning what he considers the “woke-mind-virus, which is fundamentally antiscience, antimerit, and antihuman.” 2023 September 12, Paul Glader, “Four takeaways from Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk”, in CNN:
   • I would like this antihuman woman to know that she has played right into the hands of abusers everywhere by making this claim. 1991 April 26, Name withheld, “Our Abusive Critics”, in Chicago Reader:
   • I've rarely seen a sculptural object express contradictions so well: they're both human and antihuman, squat and vertical (because of the drapery folds), heavy and light. 1999 February 19, Fred Camper, “Form Follows Dysfunction”, in Chicago Reader:
2. (not-comparable) Describing an antibody that reacts with any antigen found in (and with some relevant degree of specificity to) humans.

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Coordinates

antirabbit · antimouse

Translations (4)

ru антигума́нный (opposed to humanity) · hu emberellenes (opposed to humanity) · ru противочелове́ческий (opposed to humanity) · pt anti-humano (opposed to humanity)

antihuman en · NOUN

Etymology

From anti- + human.

Meanings

1. A being that opposes, or typifies the opposite of, the human race.
   • The dialectical obverse of this use of opium is the fear that opium will turn humans into nonhumans or antihumans. Wild beasts, addicts, and Orientals are alike feared as antihumans, negations of humans. 2002, Keith McMahon, The Fall of the God of Money, page 190:
   • These witches, the human antihumans, are the most prevalent and present evil in the world. 2011, Magnus Course, Becoming Mapuche: Person and Ritual in Indigenous Chile, page 41:
2. A human being made of antimatter.
   • Heavy antielements such as antigold and antiuranium belong to science fiction and not to science. So do antihumans. 2021, Helge Kragh, Between The Earth And The Heavens, page 65:

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Relateds

antehuman · inhuman · nonhuman · antiserum · unhuman