depersonalization

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:
         {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}]