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