Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To deprive of individual character or a sense of personal identity.
- transitive verb To render impersonal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To regard as not individually personal; remove the idea of personality or of individuality from, as by ascribing a work, like the Iliad or the Odyssey, to many writers or authors, instead of to one writer or author. Also spelled
depersonalise .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To remove a sense of
personal identity orindividual character from something - verb To present something as an
impersonal object - verb psychiatry To suffer an episode of
depersonalization
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make impersonal or present as an object
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Examples
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Most difficult, however, was packing up all of our framed photographs in an effort to "depersonalize" the space.
Archive 2006-03-01 2006
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Most difficult, however, was packing up all of our framed photographs in an effort to "depersonalize" the space.
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And this label of “socialism” as a means of justification reminds me of how armies depersonalize their enemy (savages, krauts, slant eyes, gooks, infidels, towel-heads, etc) in order justify killing them.
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I'm not advocating blaming "the system," but being able to depersonalize the mistake helps us to view it more objectively and learn whatever lessons can be learned from it.
Alina Tugend: Women, Men and Handling Mistakes Alina Tugend 2011
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While the notion of “volume discounts” on property seems to borrow from big-box discount stores and depersonalize the otherwise touchy-feely concept of home shopping, Jones says borrowing a page from the retail playbook actually works with condos.
“Bulk Buying”: Works at Costco, Why Not for Condos? « PubliCola 2010
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I'm not advocating blaming "the system," but being able to depersonalize the mistake helps us to view it more objectively and learn whatever lessons can be learned from it.
Alina Tugend: Women, Men and Handling Mistakes Alina Tugend 2011
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His bigger focus now is to depersonalize the whole house so buyers will concentrate on its potential rather than on its current owners and uses.
Home sellers cope with houses in limbo Sandra Fleishman 2011
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I'm not advocating blaming "the system," but being able to depersonalize the mistake helps us to view it more objectively and learn whatever lessons can be learned from it.
Alina Tugend: Women, Men and Handling Mistakes Alina Tugend 2011
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If you get stuck in a battle of egos, try to depersonalize the situation and focus on what's best for the company, suggests Vicki Lynn, vice president for research and consulting at the jobs website Vault. com.
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If you get stuck in a battle of egos, try to depersonalize the situation and focus on what's best for the company, suggests Vicki Lynn, vice president for research and consulting at the jobs website Vault. com.
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