Dehumanization

E.g. language that describes people as less or other than human. Dehumanization can occur when persons are denied, even if just through description, of human qualities (animalistic dehumanization) or when persons are denied of their human nature (mechanistic dehumanization). [r.Twitter.d18]
‘Theriomorphism’ refers to the making of form into something animal-like, such as exaggerating features based on animal-likeness. 
‘Mechanomorphism’ refers to the making of form into something machine-like, such as exaggerating features based on machine-likeness. "Joe is so inflexible, he moves like a robot."
* See: Objectification.
* See conversely: Anthropomorphism.
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