Impersonal vs Impersonality - What's the difference?
impersonal | impersonality |
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.
The state or quality of being impersonal
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As an adjective impersonal
is not personal; not representing a person; not having personality.As a noun impersonality is
the state or quality of being impersonal.impersonal
English
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.”
Derived terms
* impersonal verbAnagrams
* ----impersonality
English
Noun
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