DEPERSONALISATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does depersonalisation mean? 

• DEPERSONALISATION (noun)
  The noun DEPERSONALISATION has 3 senses:

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

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

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

  Familiarity information: DEPERSONALISATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPERSONALISATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

depersonalisation; depersonalisation disorder; depersonalisation neurosis; depersonalization; depersonalization disorder; depersonalization neurosis

Hypernyms ("depersonalisation" is a kind of...):

dissociative disorder (dissociation so severe that the usually integrated functions of consciousness and perception of self break down)

Derivation:

depersonalise (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

depersonalisation; depersonalization

Hypernyms ("depersonalisation" 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:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

depersonalisation; depersonalization; reification

Context example:

according to Marx, treating labor as a commodity exemplified the reification of the individual

Hypernyms ("depersonalisation" is a kind of...):

objectification (the act of representing an abstraction as a physical thing)

Derivation:

depersonalise (make impersonal or present as an object)