dehumanization

1. 1.

   the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities

   “science has been blamed for the dehumanization of modern life”

   Synonymsdehumanisation

   Broaderdegradation

Other forms of dehumanization

plural

dehumanizations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dehumanization

What does dehumanization mean?

dehumanization means "the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities".

How many syllables are in dehumanization?

dehumanization has 6 syllables: de-hu-ma-ni-za-tion. The stress falls on "za". In IPA it is /ˌdiˌhjumənəˈzeɪʃən/.

What is another word for dehumanization?

Close synonyms include dehumanisation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dehumanization a common word?

dehumanization is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with dehumanization?

94 words rhyme with dehumanization. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.