impersonal

(ĭm-pûr'sə-nəl)
adj.

1. Lacking personality; not being a person: an impersonal force.
2. 1. Showing no emotion or personality: an aloof, impersonal manner.
   2. Having no personal reference or connection: an impersonal remark.
   3. Not responsive to or expressive of human personalities: a large, impersonal corporation.
3. Grammar.
   1. Of, relating to, or being a verb that expresses the action of an unspecified subject, as in methinks, "it seems to me"; Latin pluit, "it rains"; or, with an expletive subject, it snowed.
   2. Indefinite. Used of pronouns.

impersonality im·per'son·al'i·ty (-sə-năl'ĭ-tē) n.
impersonally im·per'son·al·ly adv.

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adjective

Feeling or showing no strong emotional involvement: detached, disinterested, dispassionate, indifferent, neutral. See feelings.

adj

Definition: cold, unfriendly
Antonyms: friend, friendly, informal, personable, personal, warm

IN BRIEF: Having no personal reference or connection.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. — Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-1978), American statesman.

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• Grammar and Usage - impersonal: (adj) being a verb with only third person singular forms and having an unspecified subject
• Cold, Unfriendly, Irritable, or Cruel

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - upersonlig

Nederlands (Dutch)
onpersoonlijk

Français (French)
adj. - impersonnel, froid, (Ling) impersonnel

Deutsch (German)
adj. - unpersönlich

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - απρόσωπος

Italiano (Italian)
impersonale

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - impessoal

Русский (Russian)
беспристрастный, безличный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - impersonal

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - inte personlig, opersonligt (verb), obestämt (pronomen)

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
客观的, 非个人的, 和个人无关的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 客觀的, 非個人的, 和個人無關的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 일반적인, 비인격적인, 비인칭의

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 人格を有しない, 個人に関しない, 非人称の, 一般的な, 人間味のない
n. - 非人称動詞

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) مجهول, لا شخصي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮סתמי, על-אנושי, לא-אישי, חסר-אישיות‬

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