depersonalizationn.
/diːˌpəːsənəlʌɪˈzeɪʃən/ 1. The action of depersonalizing or fact of being depersonalized.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > uniformity > [noun] > characterlessness
unpersonality1821
characterlessness1822
dispersonification1873
sameliness1897
depersonalization1907
depersonalizing1919
facelessness1929
1907 J. R. Illingworth Doctr. Trinity x. 191 Madness, prison, suicide may be the end, and all equally symbolise the destruction of proper personality, or, to use a modern term, the depersonalisation, to which transgression leads.
1912 F. von Hügel Eternal Life 69 A certain depersonalization of his conception of this same Christ.
1929 Times 14 Aug. 6/3 That progress means the ‘de-personalization’ of the individual.
1942 D. Jenkins Nature of Catholicity iii. 74 The doctrine of transubstantiation, with its crass ‘objectification’ and hence its depersonalization of Christ's presence.
1953 H. Read True Voice of Feeling i. i. 34 We will consider..what..was lost in this particular case of ‘depersonalization’ of a poem.
1968 Economist 4 May 64/2 It is fashionable to say that despecialisation goes along with depersonalisation.
2. spec. in Psychology. [ < French dépersonnalisation (L. Dugas 1898, in Revue Philos. XLV. 502). Compare German entpersönlichung.] A morbid state involving a loss of the sense of personal identity and a feeling of the strangeness or unreality of one's own words and actions; in extreme cases involving also an obsessive feeling of dissolution of the personality.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > personality disorders > dissociation
self-estrangement1841
disassociation1873
multiple personality1886
splitting1890
dissociation1897
depersonalization1904
dissociated personality1918
split personality1919
dissociative identity disorder1994
1904 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 15 589 The peculiar feelings of strangeness and depersonalization.
1918 J. Ward Psychol. Princ. xv. 364 In some forms of so-called ‘depersonalisation’,..the individual doubts his own existence or denies it altogether.
1941 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. 32 113 This watching from without—known as depersonalization when reaching a high grade—is found in schizophrenia and also in melancholia.
1960 Times 15 Jan. 15/1 Three [participants in a test of isolation] showed evidence of depersonalization.
1963 J. H. Burn Drugs, Med. & Man (ed. 2) xxi. 211 The LSD intoxication stimulates an acute schizophrenia upheaval, marked by a feeling of depersonalization, of being withdrawn from reality.
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