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DEPERSONALIZATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality
Example:
according to Marx, treating labor as a commodity exemplified the reification of the individual
Synonyms:
depersonalisation; depersonalization; reification
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("depersonalization" is a kind of...):
objectification (the act of representing an abstraction as a physical thing)
Derivation:
depersonalize (make impersonal or present as an object)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine
Synonyms:
depersonalisation; depersonalization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("depersonalization" is a kind of...):
mental condition; mental state; psychological condition; psychological state ((psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic)
Domain category:
existential philosophy; existentialism; existentialist philosophy ((philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness
Synonyms:
depersonalisation; depersonalisation disorder; depersonalisation neurosis; depersonalization; depersonalization disorder; depersonalization neurosis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("depersonalization" is a kind of...):
dissociative disorder (dissociation so severe that the usually integrated functions of consciousness and perception of self break down)
Derivation:
depersonalize (make impersonal or present as an object)
