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Subhuman means "less than human". It may refer to:
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- Dehumanization, the denial of full humanness in others and the cruelty and suffering that accompanies it
- Infrahumanisation, the tacitly held belief that one's ingroup is more human than an outgroup, which is less human
- Second-class citizen, a person who is systematically discriminated against within a state or other political jurisdiction, despite their nominal status as a citizen or legal resident there
- Slave, someone forbidden to quit their service for another person and is treated as property
- Untermensch , a term for an "inferior human being" which was originally used by early eugenicists and Nazi racial theorists
