noun
- Emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness.
- Existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine.
- synonyms: depersonalisation
- Representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality.
- usage: "according to Marx, treating labor as a commodity exemplified the reification of the individual"
- synonyms: depersonalisation, reification
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