Impersonal vs Responsive - What's the difference?
impersonal | responsive | Related terms |
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.
Answering, replying or responding.
Able to receive and respond to external stimuli.
Using antiphons; antiphonal.
Susceptible to the feelings of others.
(obsolete) Suited to something else; correspondent.
* Alexander Pope
(obsolete) responsible
Impersonal is a related term of responsive.
As adjectives the difference between impersonal and responsive
is that impersonal is not personal; not representing a person; not having personality while responsive is answering, replying or responding.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
* ----responsive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The vocal lay responsive to the strings.
- (Jeremy Taylor)
