depersonalize

de- +‎ personalize

depersonalize (third-person singular simple present depersonalizes, present participle depersonalizing, simple past and past participle depersonalized)

1. (transitive) To remove a sense of personal identity or individual character from something; to anonymize.
   • 1982 April 8, Rashi Fein, “What Is Wrong with the Language of Medicine?”, in New England Journal of Medicine‎, volume 306, number 14, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 863–864:

     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.

2. (transitive) To present (something) as an impersonal object.
3. (psychiatry, intransitive) To suffer an episode of depersonalization.

   He's depersonalizing right now, so he's considering checking himself into the hospital.

• depersonalise

• depersonalization
• depersonalization disorder