To remove personal or individual character from something.
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Words that belong together
- depersonalize an account
- depersonalize a process
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The summary depersonalized the account by replacing names with roles.
The procedure depersonalized the exchange without necessarily making it fairer.
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Word forms
- Base
- depersonalize
- Past tense
- depersonalized
- Past participle
- depersonalized
- Present participle
- depersonalizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- depersonalize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are depersonalizing
- Present perfect
- have/has depersonalized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been depersonalizing
- Past
- depersonalized
- Past continuous
- was/were depersonalizing
- Past perfect
- had depersonalized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been depersonalizing
- Future
- will depersonalize
- Future continuous
- will be depersonalizing
- Future perfect
- will have depersonalized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been depersonalizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: depersonalize; depersonalizes; depersonalized; depersonalized; depersonalizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: institutional and conceptual change, philosophical orientation, qualification of recurrence and degree. Disciplines: academic writing, philosophy, cross-disciplinary analysis. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: depersonalizes.
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