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impersonal

Syllabification: (im·per·son·al)
Pronunciation: /imˈpərsənl/
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Definition of impersonal

adjective

  • 1not influenced by, showing, or involving personal feelings:the impersonal march of progress
  • (of a place or organization) large, featureless, and anonymous:large, impersonal institutions
  • 2not existing as a person; having no personality:he gradually came to believe in an impersonal God
  • 3 Grammar (of a verb) used only with a formal subject (in English usually it) and expressing an action not attributable to a definite subject (as in it is snowing).

Derivatives

impersonality

noun

impersonally

adverb

Origin:

late Middle English (sense 3): from late Latin impersonalis, from Latin in- 'not' + personalis (see personal)

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