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to impersonalize

to impersonalize

7.3
To make communication feel less personal by removing names or feelings
  • verb
  • /ɪmˈpɜr.sən.əˌlaɪz/
translation icon : despersonalizar
  • In today's healthcare environment, patient care has become fragmented and impersonalized even though we desire to give person-centered care.

Examples

  • Patient care has become fragmented and impersonalized, where no one acts as the patient's guardian on their pathway through an often bewildering range of costly services, facilities, specialties, and one-off interventions.

    Academic text (2007)

  • To create a more unbiased report, we need to impersonalize the language and remove any emotional language.

  • Oppression and one of its expressions, racism, legitimize structural violence, rationalize institutional violence, and impersonalize personal violence.

    Academic text (1994)

  • The new guidelines aim to impersonalize communication in professional emails to maintain a formal tone.

  • The decision to impersonalize customer interactions was made to improve efficiency and reduce staffing costs.

Synonyms

to objectify
vsto impersonalize
  • Offensive
30 7.5

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

is used to reduce personal feeling and make views more objective
to depersonalize
vsto impersonalize
  • US
1 7.5

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

aims to create a neutral, detached viewpoint without emotional ties
to objectivize
vsto impersonalize
  • Offensive
8.9

To treat people as things and ignore their feelings

aims to remove personal emotion to create an objective, neutral stance

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
7.3
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 + personal + ize

A straightforward derivation 'impersonal' + '-ize' meaning 'make less personal', which is predictable from the base.

Etymology

Impersonalize comes from im- 'not', personal 'about a person', and -ize 'make', so it means to 'make not personal'. That is why to impersonalize a message or service is to remove names or feelings so it feels more general and less about one person.