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im⋅per⋅son⋅al⋅i⋅ty

  [im-pur-suh-nal-i-tee]
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–noun, plural -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.
Origin:
1760–70; impersonal + -ity
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im·per·son·al   (ĭm-pûr'sə-nəl)   
adj.  

  1. Lacking personality; not being a person: an impersonal force.

    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.

    4. 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.

    5. Indefinite. Used of pronouns.

  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.

im·per'son·al'i·ty (-sə-nāl'ĭ-tē) n., im·per'son·al·ly adv.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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