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depersonalized

depersonalized is the simple past and past participle 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.

Phrases with depersonalized

Questions about depersonalized

What is depersonalized the simple past and past participle of?
Depersonalized is the simple past and past participle of depersonalize.

Words near depersonalized in the dictionary

  1. depersonalization
  2. depersonalization-derealization disorder
  3. depersonalization-derealization disorders
  4. depersonalizations
  5. depersonalize
  6. depersonalized
  7. depersonalized schizoid
  8. depersonalizer
  9. depersonalizers
  10. depersonalizes
  11. depersonalizing

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