impersonality
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səˈnæl noun, plural im·per·son·al·i·ties for 6.
1.
absence of human character or of the traits associated with the human character: He feared the impersonality of a mechanized world.
2.
absence or reduction of concern for individual needs or desires: the impersonality of a very large institution.
3.
lack of emotional involvement: His work reflected a certain impersonality.
4.
lack of a personal agent or of a known personal agent: the impersonality of folk art.
5.
the quality of not being concerned with particular persons: the impersonality and universality of his interests.
6.
something that is impersonal.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | without reference to any individual person; objective: an impersonal assessment |
| 2. | devoid of human warmth or sympathy; cold: an impersonal manner |
| 3. | not having human characteristics: an impersonal God |
| 4. | grammar (of a verb) having no logical subject. Usually in English the pronoun it is used in such cases as a grammatical subject, as for example in It is raining |
| 5. | grammar (of a pronoun) not denoting a person |
| imperson'ality | |
| —n | |
| im'personally | |
| —adv | |
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Example sentences
In the modern financial system, by contrast, risk evaluation involves two things: impersonality and outsourcing.
We see the vast impersonality of the unnamed corporation and its meaningless exams and psycho-technical tests.
It is the hopeless fight of mind against instinct, of determination against fate, of personality against impersonality.
The narrative voice achieves its effects through a frigid impersonality chilled further by an ironic self-consciousness.
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