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1. Emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness
   - depersonalisation [Brit], depersonalization disorder, depersonalisation disorder [Brit], depersonalization neurosis, depersonalisation neurosis [Brit]
    
2. (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine
   - depersonalisation [Brit]
    
3. Representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality
   "according to Marx, treating labour as a commodity exemplified the depersonalization of the individual";
   - depersonalisation [Brit], reification

Derived forms: depersonalizations

Type of: dissociative disorder, mental condition, mental state, objectification, psychological condition, psychological state

Encyclopedia: Depersonalization