Meanings of dehumanisation in English

In order to behave in this way, dehumanisation of the detainee is required.

Or perhaps we are hardened by dehumanisation, drilled into automated acquiescence by society.

One common step is dehumanisation, referring to humans in ways that obliterate their humanity.

The Home Office has deliberately created a climate of disrespect and dehumanisation towards asylum seekers.

Suspicion and dehumanisation are rarely far from the surface.

Its society is built on a classic us-and-them division, with all the dehumanisation that accompanies such thinking.

In its rationalistic dehumanisation and its crushing of enchantment, flying represents everything about modernity it would be pleasant to rewind.

Regrettably, traditional so-called safe seats have been milestones of oppression which have maintained the dehumanisation of our citizens in perpetual poverty.

Against this dehumanisation, first the replicants and then Deckard strive to create ways that will restore the personal to their lives.

But the comparisons end there immediately as the animalistic eyes, sickly skin and damaged spines complete the dehumanisation procedure with impressive precision.

Today I sent an email to the Consumers' Association of Ireland, suggesting they begin a campaign against this sort of dehumanisation in business.

It's not just the physical violence, but the wretched dehumanisation in which even speaking without "permission" is met with a vicious strike.

A century on, the dehumanisation and marginalisation of the Palestinian people persists, and is used as a basis to deny us our most basic rights.

This oppression required the dehumanisation of the populations who suffered the consequences -its legacy is the embedding of racism in institutions and entire societies.

Dehumanisation is a key tactic for the pro-repeal lobby.

In order to behave in this way, dehumanisation of the detainee is required.