depersonalizev.
transitive. To deprive of personality; to make, or regard as, no longer personal.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > uniformity > bring or reduce to uniformity [verb (transitive)] > depersonalize
dispersonate1702
disindividualize1839
dispersonify1846
dispersonalize1866
depersonalize1867
depersonize1888
1867 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. (new ed.) Introd. p. lvii He would have enabled me..to depersonalize myself into a vicarious egotism.
1889 W. S. Lilly Cent. of Revol. 170 An artificial mechanism, which destroys individuality and depersonalises man.
Derivatives
deˈpersonalized adj.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > uniformity > [adjective] > characterless > made characterless
unindividualized1844
depersonalized1901
1901 G. B. Shaw Capt. Brassbound's Conversion iii, in Three Plays for Puritans 277 (stage direct.) Sir Howard (falling back on the fatalism of the depersonalized public man).
1950 Mind 59 419 The ego here is not a kind of depersonalised pure spectator.
deˈpersonalizing n.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > uniformity > [noun] > characterlessness
unpersonality1821
characterlessness1822
dispersonification1873
sameliness1897
depersonalization1907
depersonalizing1919
facelessness1929
1919 C. W. Emmet in B. H. Streeter The Spirit v. 187 There is no substitution of the divine nature for the human, no depersonalising of man.
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