unperson
un·per·son
noun
1.
a person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights; a person whose existence is systematically ignored (especially for ideological or political reasons)
- “the former senator is treated as a nonperson by this administration”
- “George Orwell predicted that political dissidents would be treated as unpersons”
Origin
From un- + person. Coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, where it refers to a person who has been executed or has fallen out of favor; whose entire history has been erased.
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