depersonalize

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depersonalize

verb depersonalizes · depersonalizing · depersonalized · depersonalise

  1. transitive To remove a sense of personal identity or individual character from something; to anonymize. 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 th
  2. transitive To present (something) as an impersonal object. Quantification (or statisticalization) is a set of scientific practices that transforms text statements into numerical ones, depersonalizing and decontextualizing them[…]
  3. intransitive To suffer an episode of depersonalization. He's depersonalizing right now, so he's considering checking himself into the hospital.

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verb remove a sense of personal identity from something

Portuguêsdespersonalizar
Françaisdépersonnaliser
Deutschdepersonalisieren, entpersönlichen
Italianospersonalizzare
Ελληνικάαποπροσωποποιώ apoprosopopoió

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@misc{depersonalize_2026,
  title = {depersonalize},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/depersonalize},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}