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Definition of Depersonalize
1. Verb. Make impersonal or present as an object. "Pornography objectifies women"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Derivative terms: Depersonalisation, Depersonalisation, Depersonalization, Depersonalization
Antonyms: Personalise, Personalize
Definition of Depersonalize
1. Verb. To remove a sense of personal identity or individual character from something ¹
2. Verb. To present something as an impersonal object ¹
3. Verb. (psychiatry) To suffer an episode of depersonalization ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Depersonalize
1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Depersonalize
Literary usage of Depersonalize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical education in the United States and Canada: a report to the Carnegie by Abraham Flexner (1910)
"Perhaps neither, so much as a disinclination to depersonalize the hospital staff
management; for de- personalization, in hospital management as in faculty ..."
2. Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order by Edward Alsworth Ross (1901)
"... and farther from the visible welfare of particular persons, tends to depersonalize
our services and so make them duties rather than ministrations. ..."
3. The Principles of Sociology by Edward Alsworth Ross (1920)
"We expect officials to depersonalize their relations to the public, to act "
without fear or favor. ..."
4. The Individualization of Punishment by Raymond ( Saleilles (1911)
"... social environment, season, race, cranial or other anomalies; in brief, they
make crime a natural or sociological fact, and depersonalize it. ..."