What's the difference between dehumanize and unhumanize?
Dehumanize
Definition:
(v. t.) To divest of human qualities, such as pity, tenderness, etc.; as, dehumanizing influences.
Example Sentences:
(1) Just a few months ago, the New York Times reported that the Obama administration has re-defined the term "militant" to mean: "all military-age males in a strike zone" - the ultimate expression of the rancid dehumanizing view that Muslims are inherently guilty of being Terrorists unless proven otherwise.
(2) The survey revealed that chief among student conerns are a lack of personal freedom, excessive academic pressures, and feelings of dehumanization.
(3) They dehumanized the individuals they were engaging and seemed to not value human life, and referred to them as quote-unquote 'dead bastards,' and congratulated each other on their ability to kill in large numbers.
(4) He describes the role of the medical team in encouraging David's conception and planning his life in the bubble, and contends that the physicians and scientists who designed the project were too isolated in the technocratic milieu of current medical practice to appreciate the dehumanizing aspects of what they were doing.
(5) He also described the dehumanization and psychological treatment inherent in colonialist exploitation.
(6) The infant in this sadomasochistic interaction is dehumanized and is used as a fetishistic object to control the relationship.
(7) But this dehumanization is about more than simply hiding and thus denying the personhood of Muslim victims of US violence.
(8) Moreover the author differentiates between the amygdaloid nucleus and dehumanization syndromes, through psychoanalytical or psychiatric studies, and stresses the importance of the molding periods in relation to social factors (frustration-aggression-injustice).
(9) But by spreading the same tired stereotypes about trans people, too many in the media are instead contributing directly to the kind of ignorance and dehumanization that breeds this discrimination and violence.
(10) Yet, when it comes to illegal immigration, a pejorative and dehumanizing term is casually used to inflame and isolate.
(11) For too long, the media has published irresponsible, factually inaccurate and dehumanizing articles on transgender women.
(12) You don’t worry about stores closing, or losing your job, or walking for miles to buy food.” But to focus more on the people’s resistance than the police repression that created it – even as tensions cooled in the streets on Monday night – is to participate in the dehumanization and devaluing of black life.
(13) For patients, it can be a frightening and dehumanizing experience, while families are confronted with stressors that can disrupt normal family functioning.
(14) Mental illness, as one type of poorly understood behavior, is for the most part controlled by institutionalizing the mentally ill person in a large dehumanized total institution such as the state mental hospital.
(15) The effects of conflict on aggression were partially mediated by 2 indexes of dehumanizing the out-group (perceived value dissimilarity and trait inhumanity) and by 1 index of probable empathy with it (perceived in-group-out-group boundary permeability).
(16) It is argued, that the medical model encourages the perception that the patient is "essentially and only their medical diagnosis," and to relate to patients 'as if' they are kidney, a broken leg, a gall stone, or an ulcer, is to dehumanize the person.
(17) That is the anti-Muslim dehumanization campaign rearing its toxic head.
(18) Because it provides for personal estimates and preferences, decision analysis is not dehumanizing, even though it is quantitative, explicit, and mathematically rigorous.
(19) Leto won for playing what many consider to be a tired, dangerous, and dehumanizing stereotype of a trans woman and, as I argued at the time , by being nominated for and accepting these awards, he perpetuated the stereotype that trans women are just men in drag.
(20) There is no reason why these developments should be any more dehumanizing than the use of similar techniques in modern transportation or communication, nor is their expense out of proportion when compared with other demands on the nation's purse.
Unhumanize
Definition:
(v. t.) To render inhuman or barbarous.
Example Sentences:
(1) And as you feel yourself drift away in this dark room, lit only by a single point of blue, you have the sensation of being unhuman.