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depersonalisation

Meaning

noun

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

Synonyms for depersonalisation

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