antiperson
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Somebody who is not a person, or not accepted as a person, or who violates the conventions of personhood.
noun
Example Sentences
- "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”)."
- "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."
- "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."
- "[…] these antipeople are demonized rhetorically as the antithesis of the people […]"
- "There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands!"
- "If a person shook hands with an antiperson, both would be annihilated in a shower of gamma ray greetings."