depersonalise

1. 1.

   make impersonal or present as an object

   “Will computers depersonalize human interactions?”

   “Pornography objectifies women”

   Synonymsdepersonalizeobjectify

   Antonymspersonalise

   Broaderchange

Other forms of depersonalise

past tense

depersonalised·

present participle

depersonalising·

third person

depersonalises·

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 depersonalise

What does depersonalise mean?

depersonalise means "make impersonal or present as an object".

How many syllables are in depersonalise?

depersonalise has 5 syllables: de-per-so-na-lise. The stress falls on "so".

What is another word for depersonalise?

Close synonyms include depersonalize, objectify. 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.

What is the opposite of depersonalise?

The recorded antonyms are personalise.

Is depersonalise a common word?

depersonalise 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.