impersonal
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5.1
- adjective
- /ɪmˈpɜrsənl/
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impersonal
- The loft itself, with its stylish, impersonal art, was a second gallery for her clients.
- impersonal mechanistic
- impersonal response
- impersonal relationship
I realized that that was the most impersonal show of love ever.
- I realized that that was the most impersonal show of love ever.
- Too often it feels like US versus an impersonal bureaucratic machine.
- And so if that comes across as rude or pushy or impersonal, I'm sorry, but I'm not sorry.
- The cognitive dissonance is enormous because modern war is so damn impersonal.
- From that very minute and non benign, the sense that is impersonal is completely neutral description of Daisy.
- What he wants is to give us that complete, impersonal, neutral, almost joking kind of look at someone losing his arm.
- Higher trust, more of a sense of an impersonal set of fairness rules and less corruption in the sense of favoring your kin over non kin.
- Human personality and values have been in a losing war with the impersonal operation of a rapidly evolving, complex society.
- But they are more impersonal than persons, right?
- It's so it's very impersonal, frankly, in, in my experience.
- But then there are also, as he says, impersonal drawings whose purpose is unclear.
- Or is it just a mechanics, an impersonal mechanics just arising within itself?
- So the next day I got an e-mail, an e-mail how impersonal kills me.
- How do you then reconcile the impersonal nature of awareness with the unique expression of individual forms?
- And when you see that you, you can't help but see that all of your stories are impersonal and impermanent and changing all the time too.
Examples
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And so if that comes across as rude or pushy or impersonal, I'm sorry, but I'm not sorry.
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I realized that that was the most impersonal show of love ever.
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Now, for example, purchasing gasoline was a very brief and impersonal transaction.
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Science is sometimes frighteningly impersonal.
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Across the desk, the branch manager reads a report out loud in an impersonal, flat manner.
Fiction book (2001) -
After last night, the room seemed gloomy and impersonal; the forest picture was unconvincing.
Fiction book (1999) -
They seem impersonal and yet they're at the same time deeply personal and deeply individual.
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The report had an impersonal tone, focusing only on the facts without any emotional commentary.
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Many online services have become so impersonal that customers feel like just another number.
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His impersonal attitude during the meeting made it clear that he did not care about the team's concerns.
Synonyms
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3.6
Not supporting either side in a conflict
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6.3
Not friendly and distant, not joining in with other people
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7.1
Not showing any feeling on the face or in the voice
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4.4
Not showing strong feelings
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6.5
Not showing love or warm feelings to others
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7.4
Calm and not showing strong feelings
Not warm and not showing care or interest
Not about a particular person and not showing private feelings
Does not show feelings openly to other people
Antonyms
How Personal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Impersonal comes from the prefix im- meaning 'not' and personal from person, which long ago also meant an actor's 'mask'. So an impersonal reply is literally 'not personal' — it feels without warmth or individual attention.