Impartial vs Impersonal - What's the difference?
impartial | impersonal | Related terms |
Treating all parties, rivals, or disputants equally; not partial; not biased; fair.
Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality.
Lacking warmth or emotion; cold.
(grammar, of a verb or other word) Not having a subject, or having a third person pronoun without an antecedent.
As adjectives the difference between impartial and impersonal
is that impartial is treating all parties, rivals, or disputants equally; not partial; not biased; fair while impersonal is not personal; not representing a person; not having personality.impartial
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Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* fairAntonyms
* partial * biased * unfairDerived terms
* impartialist * impartiality * impartiallyAnagrams
* ----impersonal
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Adjective
(en adjective)- An almighty but impersonal power, called Fate. –Sir J. Stephen.
- She sounded impersonal as she gave her report of the Nazi death camps.
- The verb “rain” is impersonal in sentences like “It’s raining.”