Depersonalization

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  depersonalization
       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: {depersonalisation},
             {depersonalization disorder}, {depersonalisation
            disorder}, {depersonalization neurosis}, {depersonalisation


            neurosis}]
       2: (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of
          being an anonymous cog in a stupid social machine [syn: {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: {depersonalisation}, {reification}]