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Impersonal

//ɪmˈpɝsənəl// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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"

  2. 2
    Lacking warmth or emotion; cold.

    "She sounded impersonal as she gave her report of the Nazi death camps."

  3. 3
    Not having a subject, or having a third person pronoun without an antecedent.

    "The verb “rain” is impersonal in sentences like “It’s raining.”"

Adjective
  1. 1
    having no personal preference wordnet
  2. 2
    not relating to or responsive to individual persons wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    An impersonal word or construct.

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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