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

Biology

  • Any of the extinct members of the clade Hominina other than Homo or alternatively just Homo sapiens sapiens
  • Ape

Music

Bands and labels

  • Subhumans (British band), a British punk rock band
  • Subhumans (Canadian band), a Canadian punk rock band
  • SubHuman : Human Imprint, an American record label founded by Dieselboy and Steve Gordon

Albums

  • SubHuman, a 2007 album by Recoil

Songs

  • "Subhuman" (song), a song by Garbage
  • "Subhuman/Something Came Over Me", a single by Throbbing Gristle
  • "Subhuman", a song by Blue Öyster Cult from the album Secret Treaties
  • "Subhuman", a song by The Pillows from the album Another Morning, Another Pillows
  • "Subhuman", a song by "Cody Mattew Johnson" from Devil May Cry 5 Soundtrack

Other uses

  • Humanoid, a non-human creature or being with human form or characteristics
  • Last man, the antithesis to the Übermensch in Nietzschean philosophy
  • A measure of progress in artificial intelligence, denoting worse performance than most humans
  • "Subhuman", was a major retrospective exhibition and sculptural installation by American fashion designer Rick Owens, held at the Triennale di Milano museum in 2017.

See also

  • Superhuman (disambiguation)