depersonalization

Definition of Depersonalization in English :

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

2. depersonalisation, depersonalization

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

representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality

Example Sentences:
'according to Marx, treating labor as a commodity exemplified the reification of the individual'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Depersonalization

noun

1.

the act or an instance of depersonalizing

2. psychiatry

an abnormal state of consciousness in which the subject feels unreal and detached from himself or herself and the world

n.

1.

a. The act of depersonalizing.

b. The state of being depersonalized.

2. Psychology A state in which one feels detached from one's own thoughts, perceptions, or identity. In this sense also called alienation.