| depersonalisation | |
noun | |
| 1. | emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness [syn: depersonalization] |
| 2. | (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine [syn: depersonalization] |
| 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" [syn: depersonalization] |