depersonalization

de·per·son·al·i·za·tion  (d-pûrs-n-l-zshn)

n.

1.

a. The act of depersonalizing.

b. The state of being depersonalized.

2. Psychology A state in which the normal sense of personal identity and reality is lost.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	depersonalization - emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness depersonalisation, depersonalisation disorder, depersonalisation neurosis, depersonalization disorder, depersonalization neurosis dissociative disorder - dissociation so severe that the usually integrated functions of consciousness and perception of self break down
	2.	depersonalization - (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine depersonalisation existential philosophy, existentialism, existentialist philosophy - (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves mental condition, mental state, psychological condition, psychological state - (psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic; "a manic state"
	3.	depersonalization - 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" reification, depersonalisation objectification - the act of representing an abstraction as a physical thing