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dehumanisation

noun

dehumanisation is a noun meaning “Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of dehumanization” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-E-H-U-M-A-N-I-S-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of dehumanisation is dehumanisations.

What does dehumanisation mean?

noun

  1. 1

    UKNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of dehumanization.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of dehumanisation

  • dehumanisations plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is dehumanisation?

Dehumanisation appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does dehumanisation come from?

From dehumanise + -ation or de- + humanisation.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).