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impersonality Definition


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impersonal
adj
    1. Having no reference to any particular person; objective.
    2. Without or unaffected by personal or human feelings, warmth, sympathy, etc; cold.
      Thesaurus: formal, neutral, aloof, detached, dispassionate, cold, official, remote, unsympathetic; Antonym: friendly.
    3. Without personality.
    4. grammar.
      Said of a verb: used without a subject or with a purely formal one (in English usually it, as in It's snowing).
    5. grammar.
      Said of a pronoun: not referring to a particular person; indefinite.
Derivative: impersonality
noun
    Derivative: impersonally
    adverb
      Etymology: 16c: from Latin impersonalis.



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