unperson
- n a person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights; a person whose existence is systematically ignored (especially for ideological or political reasons)
George Orwell predicted that political dissidents would be treated as unpersons
- To fall from favor was to fall from sightto become an "unperson," who, as far as official comment was concerned, might as well have never existed.
- You might be interested to see how an airbrush can be used to render even an Empress an unperson.
- For in Salvo, after nearly 40 years as an "unperson"that ideological limbo to which the Soviets assign their villainsLeon Trotsky had returned to the Soviet scene.