depersonalization

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Etymology

Calque of French dépersonnalisation, equivalent to de- +‎ personalization.

Noun

depersonalization (countable and uncountable, plural depersonalizations)

  1. The act of depersonalizing or the state of being depersonalized.
    He was in a critical state of depersonalization.
  2. (psychology) The loss of one's sense of personal identity.
    Coordinate term: derealization
    His depersonalization causes a great deal of stress as he searches for an authentic personal identity.
    • 1983, William Thomas Hobdell Jackson, George Stade, Jacques Barzun, European Writers, New York: Scribner:
      Musil is committed to the dissolution of the ego and to the defictionalization and depersonalization of character as Woolf expresses it in “The Narrow Bridge of Art.”
    • 2015 September 4, Howard Swains, “Depersonalisation disorder: the condition you’ve never heard of that affects millions”, in The Guardian‎:
      Many people experience some form of temporary depersonalisation in their lives, typically at moments of extreme fatigue or high stress, such as during a car crash, where both the established defence options of fight or flight are removed. A number of recreational drugs also precipitate similar episodes.
  3. (psychiatry) A feeling of being unreal, detached or unable to feel emotion.
    His severe depersonalization causes an aloof demeanor.

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