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    un·per·son
    [ˈənˌpərs(ə)n]
    noun
    unperson (noun) · unpersons (plural noun) · un-person (noun) · un-persons (plural noun)
    1. a person whose name or existence is denied or ignored, especially because of a political misdemeanor.
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    1949: coined by George Orwell in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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    noun
    1. a person whose name or existence is denied or ignored, especially because of a political misdemeanor.
      outcast
      pariah
      untouchable
      undesirable
      exile
      reject
      nonperson
      persona non grata
      social outcast
     
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    What does unperson mean?
    From un- + person. Coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, where it refers to a person who has been executed or has fallen out of favor; whose entire history has been erased. unperson (plural unpersons or unpeople) or humanity.

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    What does it mean if a person is treated as a nonperson?
    A person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights is referred to as an 'unperson'. This term is used when a person's existence is systematically ignored, often for ideological or political reasons. George Orwell predicted that political dissidents would be treated as unpersons.

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    What is an unperson in Newspeak?
    In the George Orwell book Nineteen Eighty-Four, an Unperson in Newspeak is someone who has been vaporized. Vaporization is when a person is secretly murdered and erased from society, the present, the universe, and existence.

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    Where did the word “unperson” come from?
    The first mention of the word “unperson” is on page forty-nine of 1984. It is within a message Winston Smith receives in his role at the Ministry of Truth. It reads: times 3.12.83 reporting bb dayorder doubleplusungood refs unpersons rewrite fullwise upsub antefiling

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    Who created the concept of the unperson?
    Timothy Snyder, The New York Review of Books, 3 Sep. 2020 In 1984, George Orwell created the concept of the unperson, someone who had been executed and of whose existence all records were erased. Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 1 Apr. 2018

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    Who is an unperson in 1984?
    Read More In George Orwell’s novel 1984, an unperson is someone who has been expunged by the state, someone of whom all trace has been erased. Timothy Snyder, The New York Review of Books, 3 Sep. 2020 In 1984, George Orwell created the concept of the unperson, someone who had been executed and of whose existence all records were erased.

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