depersonalize
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Is depersonalize a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To remove a sense of personal identity or individual character from something; to anonymize.Examples: "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 the dynamics of the psyche."; "A new language is infecting the culture of American medicine. It is the language of the marketplace, of the tradesman, and of the cost accountant. It is a language that depersonalizes both patients and physicians and describes medical care as just another commodity."; "In some places priests who appear always in Roman collar are suspected of aspiring to higher offices. It is taken so because usually the bishops appear in this official dress. The wearing of Roman collar can potentially depersonalize someone."transitive
2. (transitive) To present (something) as an impersonal object.Examples: "Quantification (or statisticalization) is a set of scientific practices that transforms text statements into numerical ones, depersonalizing and decontextualizing them[…]"transitive
3. (psychiatry, intransitive) To suffer an episode of depersonalization.Examples: "He's depersonalizing right now, so he's considering checking himself into the hospital."intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary