impersonal

About 3.73 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality.
2. adjective Lacking warmth or emotion; cold.

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

3. adjective Not having a subject, or having a third person pronoun without an antecedent.

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

4. noun An impersonal word or construct.

Similar words

neutral nonpersonal nonsubjective objective cold distant aloof dispassionate detached unfeeling

Often followed by

and forces as in way nature force or market

Word family

impersonalities impersonality impersonally