impersonalism

American  

[im-pur-suh-nl-iz-uhm] / ɪmˈpɜr sə nlˌɪz əm /

noun

1. the practice of maintaining impersonal relations with individuals or groups.

2. impersonality.

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Etymology

Origin of impersonalism

First recorded in 1895–1900; impersonal + -ism

Example Sentences

But impersonalism at the opposite pole in the form of abstract categories of being, causality, unity, identity, continuity, sufficient reason, etc., is equally untenable.

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His favorite categories are personal, and he has a profound distaste for the impersonalism of science.

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The idea of re-birth in accordance with a rigid moral law is alien to his traditions; while the impersonalism of the whole process leaves him cold.

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Once, it was hard for man to admit this impersonalism.

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This sudden revelation of his egoism, his wariness to protect the ideal which in his own person he had achieved, shocked Clara out of her youthful innocence and into a painful realisation that the facts of her life forbade the impersonalism which had made so much achievement possible....

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