Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun depersonalization
3 senses of depersonalization
Sense 1
depersonalization, depersonalisation, depersonalization disorder, depersonalisation disorder, depersonalization neurosis, depersonalisation neurosis -- (emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness)
=> dissociative disorder -- (dissociation so severe that the usually integrated functions of consciousness and perception of self break down)
Sense 2
depersonalization, depersonalisation -- ((existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine)
=> psychological state, psychological condition, mental state, mental condition -- ((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")
Sense 3
depersonalization, depersonalisation, reification -- (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")
=> objectification -- (the act of representing an abstraction as a physical thing)