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✍️ To remove subject 🤖 To make less personal
to impersonalize

to impersonalize

7.9
To remove a specific person from a sentence as its subject, often using 'it' or the passive voice
  • verb
  • /ɪmˈpɜr.sən.əˌlaɪz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : despersonalizar
  • The teacher asked the students to impersonalize the sentence by using the passive voice.

Examples

  • In scientific writing, it is common to impersonalize statements to avoid using first-person pronouns.

  • Writers sometimes impersonalize their language to sound more objective in academic papers.

  • They impersonalized the report to make it more objective.

  • Is it necessary to impersonalize this discussion?

  • In scientific writing, authors often impersonalize their arguments to maintain objectivity.

  • The editor suggested that we impersonalize the introduction by avoiding personal anecdotes.

  • To enhance clarity, it is important to impersonalize the findings by using neutral language.

Synonyms

to objectify
vsto impersonalize
  • Offensive
30 7.5

To treat someone as a thing, ignoring their feelings and rights

is a grammatical change focused on sentence structure not a moral act
to depersonalize
vsto impersonalize
  • US
1 7.5

Treat a person or thing as an object and remove personal qualities

is a grammatical change that makes sentences avoid a named subject

Antonyms

to personalize
  • US
75 4.0

To change something so it fits a person's name, likes, or style

How Personal

to personalize
  • US
75 4.0
to humanize
25 4.8
to impersonalize
  • Specialized
7.9
to depersonalize
  • US
1 7.5
to anonymize
  • Specialized
1 6.3

Surface Forms

impersonalize infinitive
impersonalized past
impersonalized past participle
impersonalizing present participle
impersonalizes third person singular

Morphology

impersonalize = impersonal (transparent) = im + person + al + ize

The verb is directly formed by adding '-ize' to 'impersonal' to mean 'make impersonal'.

Etymology

Impersonalize is made of im- 'not', person 'a person', and -ize 'make', so it means 'make not personal'. In grammar, to impersonalize a sentence is to remove a named person, often by using 'it' or the passive voice, so the sentence sounds more neutral or objective.