Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of a lower order than humans; subhuman.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having attributes or qualities lower than the human in the scale of being: the opposite of
superhuman .
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- noun psychology A
creature that is not (yet) at the level of understanding of ahuman being , such as apresymbolic child or ananimal .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective belonging to a group below humans in evolutionary development
Etymologies
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Examples
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The task might also be called infrahuman, because the sort of omniscience which such complete historical science would achieve would merely furnish materials for intelligence: it would be inferior to intelligence itself.
The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907
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Thousands of families braving the rains, winds and cholera under tarps and infrahuman conditions, undisbursed funding, and a rubble-strewn downtown characterized by empty plots and dying businesses.
Georgianne Nienaber: Flooding Scours the Whitewash From Haiti Aid Efforts Georgianne Nienaber 2011
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Thousands of families braving the rains, winds and cholera under tarps and infrahuman conditions, undisbursed funding, and a rubble-strewn downtown characterized by empty plots and dying businesses.
Georgianne Nienaber: Flooding Scours the Whitewash From Haiti Aid Efforts Georgianne Nienaber 2011
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Thousands of families braving the rains, winds and cholera under tarps and infrahuman conditions, undisbursed funding, and a rubble-strewn downtown characterized by empty plots and dying businesses.
Georgianne Nienaber: Flooding Scours the Whitewash From Haiti Aid Efforts Georgianne Nienaber 2011
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People often bathe, and sometimes even defecate, in the open, use unchlorinated water, lack hand-washing facilities and live in squalid, infrahuman conditions in a country where every day hundreds are infected with the deadly Vibrio cholera.
Georgianne Nienaber: Haiti: Cholera Down but People Still "Abandoned Like Stray Dogs" Georgianne Nienaber 2011
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People often bathe, and sometimes even defecate, in the open, use unchlorinated water, lack hand-washing facilities and live in squalid, infrahuman conditions in a country where every day hundreds are infected with the deadly Vibrio cholera.
Georgianne Nienaber: Haiti: Cholera Down but People Still "Abandoned Like Stray Dogs" Georgianne Nienaber 2011
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Thousands of families braving the rains, winds and cholera under tarps and infrahuman conditions, undisbursed funding, and a rubble-strewn downtown characterized by empty plots and dying businesses.
Georgianne Nienaber: Flooding Scours the Whitewash From Haiti Aid Efforts Georgianne Nienaber 2011
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People often bathe, and sometimes even defecate, in the open, use unchlorinated water, lack hand-washing facilities and live in squalid, infrahuman conditions in a country where every day hundreds are infected with the deadly Vibrio cholera.
Georgianne Nienaber: Haiti: Cholera Down but People Still "Abandoned Like Stray Dogs" Georgianne Nienaber 2011
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When you think of each act of conception as God's creative act, then it follows that it should be wrong to destroy the zygote or the embryo or that fetus, because each stage of the infrahuman lifeform represents the supposed creative act of God.
Congress Should Pass Public Funding for Abortion in the First Trimester 2009
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For the infrahuman zygote and the the infrahuman embryo and then the infrahuman fetus do not represent the essence of a human person, but represent infrahuman lifeforms.
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