English Explanatory Dictionary

unperson

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A person who has been stripped of rights, identity, or humanity.
verb
  1. To strip (a person) of rights, identity, or humanity; to dehumanize.

Word forms

unperson unpersons unpeople unpersoning unpersoned

Etymology

From un- + person. Coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, where it refers to a person who has been executed or has fallen out of favor; whose entire history has been erased.

Related words

nonperson
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