Depersonalise (Verb)
Meaning
Make impersonal or present as an object; "Will computers depersonalize human interactions?"; "Pornography objectifies women".
Classification
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
Examples
- The internet can sometimes depersonalise people's interactions and reduce them to mere online profiles.
- Modern mass production can depersonalise the relationship between consumers and the products they buy.
- In some universities, lectures given to hundreds of students can result in an environment that depersonalises their experience.
- Todays' increasingly virtual workplaces might further serve to depersonalise relationships among colleagues.
- The effect of the media portraying women in an overly idealised or objectified manner is to depersonalise those concerned.