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Subhuman means "less than human". It may refer to:

Biology

Music

Bands and labels

Albums

Songs

Other uses

  • Dehumanization, the denial of full humanness in others and the cruelty and suffering that accompanies it
  • Humanoid, a non-human creature or being with human form or characteristics
  • Infrahumanisation, the tacitly held belief that one's ingroup is more human than an outgroup, which is less human
  • Last man, the antithesis to the Übermensch in Nietzschean philosophy
  • A measure of progress in artificial intelligence, denoting worse performance than most humans
  • 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

See also