depersonalization

Noun

depersonalization (countable and uncountable, plural depersonalizations)

1. The act of depersonalizing or the state of being depersonalized.
   • He was in a critical state of depersonalization.
2. The loss of one's sense of personal identity.
   • His depersonalization causes a great deal of stress as he searches for an authentic personal identity.
   • Musil is committed to the dissolution of the ego and to the defictionalization and depersonalization of character as Woolf expresses it in “The Narrow Bridge of Art.”1983, William Thomas Hobdell Jackson, George Stade, Jacques Barzun, European Writers, New York: Scribner
3. A feeling of being unreal, detached or unable to feel emotion.
   • His severe depersonalization causes an aloof demeanor.