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antiperson en · NOUN

Etymology

From anti- + person.

Meanings

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 be”). 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:
   • […] these antipeople are demonized rhetorically as the antithesis of the people […] 2019, Federico Finchelstein, From Fascism to Populism in History, page xxvii:
   • We must create a civilization that includes science and technique on our terms established through their resymbolization. It will help transform the antipersons we have become into persons living lives enriched by what discipline-based approaches can contribute within their limits, but not enslaved by the cults of the fact, efficiency, growth, and disembodied communal and individual life. 2016, Willem H. Vanderburg, Our Battle for the Human Spirit, page 380:
2. A hypothetical person made out of antimatter.
   • 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:
   • 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:

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nonperson