Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🧑‍🎓 A critic of humanism 🚫 Against humanism
antihumanist

antihumanist

9.8
A person who rejects the idea that people are the most important
  • noun
  • /ˌæntiˈhjuːmənɪst/
  • Formal
translation icon : antihumanista
  • Many critics label him an antihumanist due to his disapproval of traditional humanistic approaches in literature.

Examples

  • As an antihumanist, she challenges the belief that human experiences should be the primary focus of ethics and morality.

  • I agree with Gayatri Spivak when she says in her more recent "negotiations" between feminism and deconstruction that no literary scholar today can afford to "ignore the powerful currents of European post-Nietzschean antihumanist thought that influence us."

    Academic text (2000)

  • The philosopher's writings reflect a strong antihumanist perspective, often questioning the value of human-centered ideologies.

Antonyms

humanist
23 5.4

A person who believes people have worth and should use reason and kindness

How Opposed

antihumanist
  • Formal
9.8
humanist
23 5.4

Surface Forms

antihumanist singular
antihumanists plural

Morphology

antihumanist = humanist (transparent) = anti + human + ist

As a noun, it still transparently denotes a person characterized by opposition to humanist principles.

Etymology

Antihumanist comes from anti- 'against', human 'people', and the ending -ist 'a person who'. So an antihumanist is a person who opposes or rejects humanist ideas and the idea that human values should be central.