depersonalisation

• Sustantivo que designa el estado o proceso por el cual una persona siente extrañamiento respecto de su propia realidad personal o identidad, a menudo descrito como una sensación de irrealidad o de percibirse a uno mismo como parte anónima de un sistema impersonal.

A noun referring to a state or process in which an individual feels detached from their own personal reality or identity, often described as a feeling of unreality or being an anonymous part of an impersonal system.

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1. Dissociative disorderC1formalmedical

   An emotional state or disorder in which a person feels detached from their own mental processes or body, accompanied by a sense of unreality or strangeness.

   Despersonalización

   • Patients with depersonalisation often feel as though they are watching their own life from outside their body.
   • Chronic depersonalisation can lead to feelings of disconnection from reality and confusion.
   • Therapy helped her manage the symptoms of depersonalisation and regain a sense of self.

2. Loss of personal identityC2formal

   In existential philosophy, the feeling of being an anonymous, interchangeable part of a large, impersonal social system, losing one's unique identity.

   Despersonalización

   • Modern bureaucracy often leads to a sense of depersonalisation among employees.
   • Kierkegaard described depersonalisation as a consequence of mass society.
   • The character in the novel experiences depersonalisation as he becomes just a face in the crowd.

   Sinónimosalienationanomiedehumanizationestrangement

   Antónimosindividualisationindividuation

3. DehumanisationC1formal

   The act of representing or treating a person as a physical object deprived of individual qualities, personality, or humanity.

   Cosificación

   • The prison system's harsh conditions resulted in the depersonalisation of inmates.
   • Advertising sometimes contributes to depersonalisation by reducing people to mere consumers.
   • In war, propaganda often promotes depersonalisation of the enemy.

   Sinónimosdehumanizationobjectificationreification