impersonal

From French impersonnel, from Latin impersōnālis, from Latin im- (“not”) + persōnālis (“personal”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɝsənəl/

impersonal (comparative more impersonal, superlative most impersonal)

1. Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality.

   An almighty but impersonal power, called Fate. –Sir J. Stephen.

2. Lacking warmth or emotion; cold.

   She sounded impersonal as she gave her report of the Nazi death camps.

3. (grammar, of a verb or other word) Not having a subject, or having a third person pronoun without an antecedent.

   The verb “rain” is impersonal in sentences like “It’s raining.”

• (grammar): monopersonal, unipersonal

• impersonal verb

• personal

• mailperson, prolamines

impersonal m (oblique and nominative feminine singular impersonale)

1. (grammar) impersonal

From Latin impersōnālis.

• IPA^(key): /impersoˈnal/, [ĩmpersoˈnal]

impersonal (plural impersonales)

1. impersonal (not representing a person)

   Antonym: personal

2. (grammar) impersonal (not having a subject)

• impersonalidad
• impersonalizar
• impersonalmente

• “impersonal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.