antiperson
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]antiperson (plural antipersons or antipeople)
- Somebody who is not a person, or not accepted as a person, or who violates the conventions of personhood.
- 1985, Irving Lewis Horowitz, C. Wright Mills: An American Utopian:
- 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”).
- 2010, Louise Christine, The Huntress Chronicles: Some Will Rise; Some Will Fall, page 226:
- 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.
- 2016, Willem H. Vanderburg, Our Battle for the Human Spirit, page 380:
- 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.
- 2019, Federico Finchelstein, From Fascism to Populism in History, page xxvii:
- […] these antipeople are demonized rhetorically as the antithesis of the people […]
- A hypothetical person made out of antimatter.
- 1988, Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, page 75:
- There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands!
- 2002, Roy A. Gallant, Meteorite Hunter: The Search for Siberian Meteorite Craters, page 45:
- If a person shook hands with an antiperson, both would be annihilated in a shower of gamma ray greetings.