Source : WordNet®

depersonalisation
     n 1: emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of
          contact with your own personal reality accompanied by
          feelings of unreality and strangeness [syn: {depersonalization},
           {depersonalization disorder}, {depersonalisation
          disorder}, {depersonalization neurosis}, {depersonalisation
          neurosis}]
     2: (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of
        being an anonymous cog in a stupid social machine [syn: {depersonalization}]
     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" [syn: {depersonalization}, {reification}]