depersonalization Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

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