animalization
Reducing to beasts
Animalization is the process of reducing humans to the status of animals—stripping away dignity, rights, or individuality.
Propaganda often employs animalization to dehumanize enemies: The regime's animalization of refugees made atrocities easier to justify.
The term also describes portraying human characters with animal traits in art or literature, or the biological process of making something more animal-like.
Profound biological restructuring
- shapeshiftMagically change physical form
- morphChange form gradually
- werewolfShapeshifting wolf-person
- skinwalkerNavajo witch who transforms
transmutation · beastly · mutation · transfigure · reversion · devolution · regression · feral
Make like an animal
- brutalizeTreat with cruel violence
- degradeLower in standing
- debaseLower in quality
- objectifyTreat as mere thing
vilify · demonize · barbarize · otherize · stigmatize · dehumanize · subjugate · oppress
Exploiting the vulnerable
- territorialDefensive about owned space
- feralWild after domestication
- primalFirst in origin
- survivalRemaining alive against odds
dominance · pack · herd · mating · foraging · alpha · prey · aggression
Moral tale with animals
- allegorySymbolic tale with deeper meaning
- anthropomorphismAttributing personality to things
- bestiaryMedieval animal treatise
- personificationAttributing humanity to non-humans
satire · parable · symbolism · Kafka · Orwell · totemism · caricature · metaphorical
metamorphosis
Profound biological restructuring
- shapeshiftMagically change physical form
- morphChange form gradually
- werewolfShapeshifting wolf-person
skinwalker · transmutation · beastly · mutation · transfigure · reversion · devolution · regression · feral · rabid
bestialize
Make like an animal
objectify · vilify · demonize · barbarize · otherize · stigmatize · dehumanize · subjugate · oppress · marginalize
predatory
Exploiting the vulnerable
- territorialDefensive about owned space
- feralWild after domestication
- primalFirst in origin
survival · dominance · pack · herd · mating · foraging · alpha · prey · aggression · submission
fable
Moral tale with animals
- allegorySymbolic tale with deeper meaning
- anthropomorphismAttributing personality to things
- bestiaryMedieval animal treatise
personification · satire · parable · symbolism · Kafka · Orwell · totemism · caricature · metaphorical · emblematic
animalizationhumanization
Attributing personal characteristics
anthropomorphization · personification · rehumanization · humanizing · civilization
animalizationdignification
Conferring worth or honor
ennoblement · humanization · elevation · exaltation · glorification
animalizationdeification
Elevation to divine status
divinization · spiritualization · apotheosis · sanctification · transcendence
animal, animals, animated, animation, animate, animosity, animating, animus, anime