depersonalisation (n.)

  1. emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness

    [ Syn: depersonalization , depersonalization disorder , depersonalisation disorder , depersonalization neurosis , depersonalisation neurosis ]

  2. (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine

    [ Syn: depersonalization ]

  3. representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality; according to Marx, treating labor as a commodity exemplified the reification of the individual

    [ Syn: depersonalization , reification ]

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