nonhuman

[ non-hyoo-muhnor, often, -yoo- ]

adjective

1. not human.
2. not displaying the emotions, sympathies, intelligence, etc., of most human beings.
3. not intended for consumption by humans:

   nonhuman products such as soaps and detergents.

Other Words From

• non·human·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of nonhuman¹

non- + human

Example Sentences

If successful, they may move towards nonhuman primates before attempting to create life for expecting parents.

From Singularity Hub 

The book makes a clear case for the moral value of individual sentient creatures, providing a rundown of the latest science that dissolves the distinct line often drawn between humans and nonhumans.

From Science News

Next is a surprisingly readable history of how philosophers have conceived nonhuman beings, beginning with ancient cultures and proceeding to Singer and beyond.

From Outside Online

By studying muscles in the great apes and other nonhuman primates, the team has created reference databases.

From Science News For Students

You’re never going to find a human baby with nonhuman parents.

From FiveThirtyEight

Cromwell, for one, thinks the Academy should revise its rules to recognize nonhuman performers.

From The Daily Beast

Perhaps because in some ways it did resemble his own, that face was more preposterously nonhuman.

From Project Gutenberg

"Nebran—" The dwarfish nonhuman gabbled something then doubled behind me.

From Project Gutenberg

He'd brought her some sort of nonhuman toy from one of the lowland towns, Charin I think.

From Project Gutenberg

There seemed to be dozens of faces, shifting with each spin of the prism, human and nonhuman, all dim and slightly distorted.

From Project Gutenberg

A golden nonhuman child murmured something as she pattered by me in the street, and I stopped, gripped by a spasm of stagefright.

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