dispersonifyv.
/dɪspəˈsɒnɪfʌɪ/ transitive. To undo the personification of; to represent or regard as impersonal.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > uniformity > bring or reduce to uniformity [verb (transitive)] > depersonalize
dispersonate1702
disindividualize1839
dispersonify1846
dispersonalize1866
depersonalize1867
depersonize1888
1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. xvi. 467 Anaxagoras and other astronomers incurred the charge of blasphemy for dispersonifying Hêlios.
1855 Selss Ger. Lit. (1864) 182 Others, on the contrary, dispersonified the Divinity.
Derivatives
disperˌsonifiˈcation n. the action of dispersonifying.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > uniformity > [noun] > characterlessness
unpersonality1821
characterlessness1822
dispersonification1873
sameliness1897
depersonalization1907
depersonalizing1919
facelessness1929
1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. (1874) xvi. 392 The dispersonification of Hêlios.
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