Look up impersonality in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Impersonality may refer to: Impersonal passive voice, a verb voice that decreases the valency...

linguistics, an impersonal verb is one that has no determinate subject. For example, in the sentence "It rains", rain is an impersonal verb and the pronoun...

personal pronoun you can often be used in the place of one, the singular impersonal pronoun, in colloquial speech. The generic you is primarily a colloquial...

The impersonal passive voice is a verb voice that decreases the valency of an intransitive verb (which has valency one) to zero.: 77  The impersonal passive...

appears with first- or second-person reference. It is sometimes called an impersonal pronoun. It is more or less equivalent to the Scots "a body", the French...

goddess, is a deity who can be related to as a person, instead of as an impersonal force, such as the Absolute. In the scriptures of the Abrahamic religions...

(accusative and genitive) impersonal: dobre psy ("good dogs"; nominative and accusative); dobrych psów (genitive only) impersonal: dobre sery ("good cheeses";...

"Chris1 paid Pat2 $203 for a lawnmower4". Weather verbs often appear to be impersonal (subjectless, or avalent) in null-subject languages like Spanish, where...

reality. Naturalism includes detachment, in which the author maintains an impersonal tone and disinterested point of view; determinism, which is defined as...

used in constructions where there is no grammatical subject such as with impersonal verbs (e.g., it is raining) or in existential clauses (there are many...

significant developments: coercion and reward can have personal as well as impersonal forms. Expert and referent power can be negative or positive. Legitimate...

questioning their loyalties. All the while the alien stalks with cold impersonal efficiency, taking out the self-styled militia one by one, and duplicating...

wide array of writings and interviews. He said he had sympathy for the impersonal pantheistic God of Baruch Spinoza's philosophy. He did not believe in...

describe non-human animals, to refer to biologically female humans in an impersonal technical context (e.g., "Females were more likely than males to develop...

forms to express an action performed by an undetermined subject (the "impersonal"). Although the Estonian and Germanic languages are of very different...

needs to have forehead bumps removed; Villanueva rebukes Andrews for his impersonal approach to the case. When Andrews performs the surgery himself, a more...

tense, active voice, indicative mood form of the verb. If the verb is impersonal, the first principal part will be in the third-person singular. The second...

to a feeling of strong attraction or emotional attachment. It can be impersonal (the love of an object, ideal, or strong political or spiritual connection)...

Knowledge and Teachings of Impersonal Life (also known as the "I AM" Teaching) to the world in his first book, The Impersonal Life published in 1914. His...

court to determine the outcome, in those circumstances, of applying that impersonal standard. 4. In recent times, some additional passengers from the European...

stage, in which humanity did not think in terms of generalizations and impersonal laws: instead, humans saw each event as an act of will on the part of...

writing, "Brothers isn't badly acted, but as directed by the increasingly impersonal Jim Sheridan, it’s lumbering and heavy-handed, a film that piles on overwrought...

gurus and making the scripture the literal embodiment of the eternal, impersonal guru, serving as the spiritual guide for Sikhs. All Sikhs are commanded...

Press, described it as an autobiography that is "at once subjective and impersonal, private and collective." In the book, Ernaux writes about herself in...

Retrieved October 27, 2018. Ingraham, Nathan (May 17, 2017). "Google's impersonal-but-handy Smart Replies come to the Gmail app". Engadget. AOL. Archived...

indicate the non-existence of people or things. (Nobody thinks that.) Impersonal pronouns normally refer to a person but are not specific as to first,...

tense 1st śpiewam śpiewamy 2nd śpiewasz śpiewacie 3rd śpiewa śpiewają impersonal śpiewa się past tense 1st śpiewałem śpiewałam śpiewaliśmy śpiewałyśmy...

only surviving form of the verb quethe, "to say" (related to bequeath). Impersonal verbs such as to rain and to snow share some characteristics with the...

Bennett argues that attempting to increase the sum total impersonal happiness (or decrease impersonal harm) can lead to repugnant conclusions, such as being...

refer to male and female individuals respectively; den and det refer to impersonal or inanimate nouns, of masculine/feminine or neutral gender respectively...