1. people who have been officially erased from records or denied recognition by an authoritarian government or organization
Usage: literary; political

Examples

• In the dystopian novel, dissidents became unpersons whose names were removed from all documents.
• The totalitarian regime turned political opponents into unpersons, erasing their existence from history.
• Former party members who fell from grace were declared unpersons and forgotten by society.
• The concept of unpersons illustrates how authoritarian states control information and memory.
• Citizens feared becoming unpersons if they spoke out against the government.
• Historical records were altered to make certain individuals unpersons in the official narrative.