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• v  make impersonal or present as an object
  Will computers depersonalize human interactions?

• In the visual arts, as in literature, "the cult of utterness," in one critic's phrase, tends to devalue and depersonalize human sexuality.
• Their purposes: to express a type, depersonalize the actor, permit the actor to appear in more than one part.
• So relaxed is the pace that they still don't want to have street signs or house numbers because they believe that such measures tend to depersonalize people.

• depersonalise
• objectify

• personalize
• personalise

News & Articles

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• Bam: Wait, I forgot my ‘line’
  WASHINGTON — President Obama took the eraser yesterday to his famous invocation of a “red line” on Syria. Seeking to depersonalize his plan for an airstrike against the Syrian regime for using chemical weapons, Obama said the red line isn’t “something I kind of made up. I didn’t pluck...
  Sept. 5, 2013 - New York Post

Quotes

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• Bill Clinton in USA Today
  I think we should be able to talk about this in a mature way,Clinton said after a speech in Little Rock marking the first anniversary of the opening of his presidential library. "I want to depersonalize the debate so we can have the debate...