1. to remove personal or individual characteristics from something; to make impersonal or detached
Usage: British spelling; American English typically uses 'depersonalize'; often used in psychology and organizational contexts
2. to cause someone to feel disconnected from their own identity or emotions; to produce a sense of unreality about oneself
Usage: psychology and psychiatry term; describes a dissociative symptom

Examples

• Large bureaucracies can depersonalise the customer experience.
• The factory system seemed to depersonalise workers, treating them as mere production units.
• Stress and trauma can depersonalise individuals, making them feel detached from reality.
• Modern technology sometimes depersonalises human interaction.
• The hospital's standardized procedures risked depersonalising patient care.
• She felt the medication would depersonalise her emotions too much.