Search for crossword answers and clues
A feeling of being an anonymous cog in a stupid social machine
Answer for the clue "A feeling of being an anonymous cog in a stupid social machine ", 17 letters:
depersonalization
Alternative clues for the word depersonalization
Word definitions for depersonalization in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness [syn: depersonalisation , depersonalization disorder , depersonalisation disorder , depersonalization ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Depersonalization can consist of a reality or detachment within the self, regarding one's mind or body, or being a detached observer of oneself. Subjects feel they have changed, and the world has become vague, dreamlike, less real, or lacking in significance. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 the act of depersonalizing or the state of being depersonalized 2 (context psychology English) the loss of one's sense of personal identity 3 (context psychiatry English) A feeling of being unreal, detached or unable to feel emotion
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1907; see de- + personalization . Related: Depersonalize ; depersonalized .
Usage examples of depersonalization.
This is called depersonalization, in which the liveliness and details of character seem to vanish.
As it jumped from bed to bed, killing patients left and right, doctors began to notice signs of mental derangement, psychosis, depersonalization, zombie-like behavior.
Local psychiatrists recognized an indigenous depersonalization syndrome.
Examples of crime scene characteristics may include the use of restraints, manner of death, depersonalization of the victim, possible staging of the crime, and the amount of physical evidence at the crime scene.
The term depersonalization is used to describe actions taken by the murderer to obscure the personal identity of the victim.
However, not all depersonalization is as overt as these examples imply.
Many writers of the post-industrial revolution era were horrified by the depersonalization of the assembly-line factory system and believed it threatened not only the worker's individual rights but the Victorian ideal of the closely knit family.
It is due largely to the inÂcreasing complexity of society and the depersonalization of the individual into a sociometric unit.
Past decisions have left us with pollution, depersonalization, and urban blight.