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impersonalness|ɪmˈpɜːsənəlnɪs|
[f. impersonal a. + -ness.]
Impersonal quality; absence of personality.
1871P. Brooks Let. 11 Jan. in A. V. G. Allen Phillips Brooks (1908) 247 When I see a small audience I lose the impersonalness of the thing. I think of individuals and that always puts me out. 1955P. Heron Changing Forms of Art 233 In his painting it never matters one jot when his beautiful girl has a distinctly anonymous air. Her impersonalness is part of her charm. 1956A. Toynbee Historian's Approach to Relig. iv. 44 The impersonalness of an oecumenical empire as an institution makes itself felt in the remoteness of its metropolis from the daily life of the great majority of its subjects. |