depersonalisation

1. 1.

   emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness

   Synonymsdepersonalizationdepersonalization disorderdepersonalisation disorderdepersonalization neurosisdepersonalisation neurosis

   Broaderdissociative disorder
2. 2.

   (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine

   Synonymsdepersonalization

   Broaderpsychological state

   existentialism

3. 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”

   Synonymsdepersonalizationreification

   Broaderobjectification

Other forms of depersonalisation

plural

depersonalisations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about depersonalisation

What does depersonalisation mean?

depersonalisation means "emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in depersonalisation?

depersonalisation has 8 syllables: de-per-so-na-li-sa-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for depersonalisation?

Close synonyms include depersonalization, depersonalization disorder, depersonalisation disorder, depersonalization neurosis, depersonalisation neurosis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is depersonalisation a common word?

depersonalisation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.