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Impersonally

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Adverb

1. impersonally

without warmth

Example Sentences:
'he treated his patients impersonally'

2. impersonally

in an impersonal manner

Example Sentences:
'when I told him about Russ I found it difficult to speak impersonally'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Impersonally

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adjective
1. 
without reference to any individual person; objective
an impersonal assessment
2. 
devoid of human warmth or sympathy; cold
an impersonal manner
3. 
not having human characteristics
an impersonal God
4. grammar
(of a verb) having no logical subject. Usually in English the pronoun it is used in such cases as a grammatical subject, as for example in It is raining
5. grammar
(of a pronoun) not denoting a person

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Impersonally

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adjective
1. 
not personal
; specif.,
a. 
without connection or reference to any particular person
an impersonal comment
b. 
not existing as a person
an impersonal force
2. 
not showing human feelings, esp. sympathy or warmth
don't be so cold and impersonal
3.  Grammar
a. 
designating or of a verb occurring only in the third person singular, in English generally with it as the indefinite subject (Ex.: “it is snowing”)
b. 
indefinite
said of pronouns
noun
4. 
an impersonal verb or pronoun

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Impersonally

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adj.
1. Lacking personality; not being a person: an impersonal force.
2.
a. Showing no emotion or personality: an aloof, impersonal manner.
b. Having no personal reference or connection: an impersonal remark.
c. Not responsive to or expressive of human personalities: a large, impersonal corporation.
3. Grammar
a. 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.
b. Indefinite. Used of pronouns.

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