infrahuman
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]infrahuman (comparative more infrahuman, superlative most infrahuman)
- Below the level of the human.
- 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
- By his hubristic defiance of time, Dorian wanders into an infrahuman realm where he is at the mercy of pitiless daemonic agents.
Noun
[edit]infrahuman (plural infrahumans)
- (psychology) A creature that is not (yet) at the level of understanding of a human being, such as a presymbolic child or an animal.