not showing, influenced by, or involving personal feelings or opinions; objective or unbiased
cold, formal, or detached
He spoke in a flat impersonal tone
not having human characteristics
an impersonal deity
said of a verb: used to express an action that has no definite subject, the subject in English usu being it, e.g. rained in it rained
said of a pronoun: not referring to a particular person, e.g. it in it rained
impersonality /-ʹnaliti/ noun
impersonally adv
[late Latin impersonalis, from in-1 + personalis: see personal]