impersonal

Definitions


[ɪmˈpəːs(ə)nl], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- not influenced by, showing, or involving personal feelings
(e.g: the impersonal power of a government)

- not existing as a person
(e.g: he gradually came to believe in an impersonal God)

- (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)


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Origin:
late Middle English (in impersonal): from late Latin impersonalis, from Latin in- ‘not’ + personalis (see personal)




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