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depersonalise

depersonalise is the alternative spelling of depersonalize.

Meaning of depersonalize

Verb

depersonalize (third-person singular simple present depersonalizes, present participle depersonalizing, simple past and past participle depersonalized)

  1. (transitive) To remove a sense of personal identity or individual character from something; to anonymize.
    • These "Eternal Ones of the Dream" are not to be confused with the personally modified symbolic figures that appear in nightmare and madness to the still tormented individual. Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of...1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 19
  2. (transitive) To present (something) as an impersonal object.
    • Quantification (or statisticalization) is a set of scientific practices that transforms text statements into numerical ones, depersonalizing and decontextualizing them[…]2008, Susan Greenhalgh, Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng's China, page 109
  3. (intransitive) To suffer an episode of depersonalization.
    • He's depersonalizing right now, so he's considering checking himself into the hospital.

Forms of depersonalise

third-person singular presentdepersonalises
present participledepersonalising
past participledepersonalised
pastdepersonalised

Questions about depersonalise

What is depersonalise the alternative spelling of?
Depersonalise is the alternative spelling of depersonalize.

Words near depersonalise in the dictionary

  1. depersisting
  2. depersists
  3. deperson
  4. depersonalisation
  5. depersonalisations
  6. depersonalise
  7. depersonalised
  8. depersonalises
  9. depersonalising
  10. depersonalization
  11. depersonalization-derealization disorder

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