verb
- to remove personal qualities, identity, or individual character from someone or something; to make impersonal or mechanical
Usage: third-person singular present tense of depersonalize
Examples
- The large corporation depersonalizes customer service by replacing human representatives with automated systems.
- Modern technology sometimes depersonalizes human interaction and connection.
- The factory assembly line depersonalizes workers by treating them as mere production units.
- Social media can depersonalize relationships by reducing face-to-face communication.
- The standardized testing system depersonalizes education and ignores individual student needs.
- Bureaucratic procedures often depersonalize the treatment of citizens.
- Mass production depersonalizes art by creating identical copies without individual character.