| NOUN | person | unperson, nonperson | a person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights |
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| Meaning | A person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights; a person whose existence is systematically ignored (especially for ideological or political reasons). | |
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| Example | "George Orwell predicted that political dissidents would be treated as unpersons" | |
| Synonym | nonperson | |
| Broader | person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul | A human being |
| Spanish | unperson | |
| Catalan | unperson | |
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