antiperson

English

Etymology

anti- + person

Noun

antiperson (plural antipersons or antipeople)

  1. Somebody who is not a person, or not accepted as a person, or who violates the conventions of personhood.
  2. A hypothetical person made out of antimatter.
    • 1988, Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (page 75)
      There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands!
    • 2002, Roy A. Gallant, Meteorite Hunter: The Search for Siberian Meteorite Craters (page 45)
      If a person shook hands with an antiperson, both would be annihilated in a shower of gamma ray greetings.

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