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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness [syn: depersonalization, depersonalisation, depersonalization disorder, depersonalisation disorder, depersonalization neurosis, depersonalisation neurosis]
2: (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine [syn: depersonalization, depersonalisation]
3: 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" [syn: depersonalization, depersonalisation, reification]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1906 1. a. an act or process of depersonalizing b. the quality or state of being depersonalized 2. a psychopathological syndrome characterized by loss of identity and feelings of unreality and strangeness about one's own behavior

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (also -isation) esp. Psychol. the loss of one's sense of identity.