Depersonalization - Dictionary Definition and Overview
Depersonalization : (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: depersonalisation,
depersonalization disorder, depersonalisation
disorder, depersonalization neurosis, depersonalisation
neurosis]
2: (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of
being an anonymous cog in a stupid social machine [syn: depersonalisation]
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: depersonalisation, reification]
