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Depersonalize

verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To remove a sense of personal identity or individual character from something; to anonymize. transitive

    "These "Eternal Ones of the Dream" are not to be confused with the personally modified symbolic figures that appear in nightmare and madness to the still tormented individual. Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics of the psyche."

  2. 2
    make impersonal or present as an object wordnet
  3. 3
    To present (something) as an impersonal object. transitive

    "Quantification (or statisticalization) is a set of scientific practices that transforms text statements into numerical ones, depersonalizing and decontextualizing them[…]"

  4. 4
    To suffer an episode of depersonalization. intransitive

    "He's depersonalizing right now, so he's considering checking himself into the hospital."

Etymology

From de- + personalize.

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