different between unemotional vs impersonal

English

Etymology

un- +? emotional

Adjective

unemotional (comparative more unemotional, superlative most unemotional)

1. Showing little or no feeling.

   An unemotional person

2. Reasoned and objective, involving reason or intellect rather than feelings.

Synonyms

• (showing little or no feeling): dispassionate; See: Thesaurus:alexithymic

Antonyms

• (showing little or no feeling): passionate

Translations

English

Etymology

From French impersonnel, from Latin impers?n?lis, from im- (“not”) + pers?n?lis (“personal”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?p?s?n?l/

Adjective

impersonal (comparative more impersonal, superlative most impersonal)

1. Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality.
   • 1853, James Stephen, On Desultory and Systematic Reading: A Lecture

     The great tragedians of Greece reveal to us their people's exquisite sense of beauty, and their faith in an awful, an almighty, but an impersonal power, called Fate

2. Lacking warmth or emotion; cold.
3. (grammar, of a verb or other word) Not having a subject, or having a third person pronoun without an antecedent.

   Synonyms: monopersonal, unipersonal

Derived terms

• impersonal verb

Related terms

• personal

Translations

Noun

impersonal (plural impersonals)

1. (grammar) An impersonal word or construct.

Anagrams

• mailperson, prolamines

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin impers?n?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /im.p??.so?nal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /im.p?r.su?nal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /im.pe?.so?nal/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

impersonal (masculine and feminine plural impersonals)

1. impersonal (not representing a person)

   Antonym: personal

2. (grammar) impersonal (not having a subject)

Derived terms

• impersonalitat
• impersonalitzar
• impersonalment

Further reading

• “impersonal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “impersonal” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “impersonal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “impersonal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Old French

Adjective

impersonal m (oblique and nominative feminine singular impersonale)

1. (grammar) impersonal

Romanian

Etymology

From French impersonnel, from Latin impersonalis.

Adjective

impersonal m or n (feminine singular impersonal?, masculine plural impersonali, feminine and neuter plural impersonale)

1. impersonal

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin impers?n?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /impe?so?nal/, [?m.pe?.so?nal]

Adjective

impersonal (plural impersonales)

1. impersonal (not representing a person)

   Antonym: personal

2. (grammar) impersonal (not having a subject)

Derived terms

• impersonalidad
• impersonalizar
• impersonalmente

Further reading

• “impersonal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.