impersonal
/ɪmˈpɝsənəl/ adjective C1- Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality.
- Lacking warmth or emotion; cold. · She sounded impersonal as she gave her report of the Nazi death camps.
- Not having a subject, or having a third person pronoun without an antecedent. · The verb “rain” is impersonal in sentences like “It’s raining.”
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Holmes had the impersonal joy of the true artist in his better work, even as he mourned darkly when it fell below the high level to which he aspired.
His keen grey eye, impersonal and brusque, flashed upon her half impatiently.
The boy’s were shining with the impersonal zeal of the translator.
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