Definition of "impersonal" []

• Lacking personality; not being a person: an impersonal force. (adjective)
• Showing no emotion or personality: an aloof, impersonal manner. (adjective)
• Having no personal reference or connection: an impersonal remark. (adjective)
• Not responsive to or expressive of human personalities: a large, impersonal corporation. (adjective)
• Grammar Of, relating to, or being a verb that expresses the action of an unspecified subject, as in methinks, "it seems to me”; Latin pluit, "it rains”; or, with an expletive subject, it snowed. (adjective)

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• "That is what he calls the impersonal force of destruction that paints "destroy" (chai) on buildings without a public discussion."
• "Each of these changes increases the gains from specialization and exchange; they also create mechanisms that underpin impersonal exchange."
• "So neat, so clean, so impersonal is exactly the relationship of the majority of readers here to the soldiers."