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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.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unperson
nonperson
Noun
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The system was nothing less than an Irish Gulag, its inmates nonpersons, placed beyond the pale of citizenship.—
Giles Harvey,
The New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2023
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Credit Reynolds for making this thing watchable, but watching a nonperson does get tedious after a couple of hours.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
13 Aug. 2021
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“Unperson.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unperson. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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