impersonal

Etymology

From French impersonnel, from Latin impersōnālis, from im- (“not”) + persōnālis (“personal”).

adj

  1. Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality.
    The great tragedians of Greece reveal to us their people's exquisite sense of beauty, and their faith in an awful, an almighty, but an impersonal power, called Fate 1853, James Stephen, On Desultory and Systematic Reading: A Lecture
  2. Lacking warmth or emotion; cold.
    She sounded impersonal as she gave her report of the Nazi death camps.
  3. (grammar, of a verb or other word) Not having a subject, or having a third person pronoun without an antecedent.
    The verb “rain” is impersonal in sentences like “It’s raining.”

noun

  1. (grammar) An impersonal word or construct.

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