DEPERSONALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does depersonalize mean? 

• DEPERSONALIZE (verb)
  The verb DEPERSONALIZE has 1 sense:

1. make impersonal or present as an object

  Familiarity information: DEPERSONALIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPERSONALIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they depersonalize    ... he / she / it depersonalizes   
Past simple: depersonalized   
Past participle: depersonalized   
-ing form: depersonalizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make impersonal or present as an object

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

depersonalise; depersonalize; objectify

Context example:

Pornography objectifies women

Hypernyms (to "depersonalize" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Antonym:

personalize (make personal or more personal)

Derivation:

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

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