ˈnon-person
[non- 2.]
A person who is regarded as nonexistent or unimportant; someone who is ignored, humiliated, or forgotten.
| 1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Oct. 555/3 The belief that all Africans, students and dockers alike, are the same; the notion that they are ‘non-persons’, with a kind of animal anonymity which relieves whites of their inhibitions. 1965 [see non-event]. 1968 Daily Tel. 7 Nov. 22/4 Pets are in highest demand in the wealthy Protestant West, with all its rejects and ‘non-persons’. 1973 R. Hayes Hungarian Game xxiii. 145 Neither AVH nor KGB had a watch on Mityas' house. He'd become such a non-person that not even they worried about whom he saw. |