| depersonalization | (n) emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness, Syn. depersonalisation disorder, depersonalization disorder, depersonalisation, depersonalization neurosis, depersonalisation neurosis |
| depersonalization | (n) (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine, Syn. depersonalisation |
| depersonalization | (n) representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality, Syn. reification, depersonalisation, Example: according to Marx, treating labor as a commodity exemplified the reification of the individual |