impersonalism means A belief system that places little importance on individuals and their subjective viewpoints and experiences. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why “impersonalism” is a great word
A belief system that places little importance on individuals and their subjective viewpoints and experiences. From impersonal (meaning 'not relating to a specific person') + the suffix -ism (denoting a system, principle, or ideological movement). First recorded in English 1895–1900. Unlike personalism, which upholds the supreme reality of the individual, or subjectivism, which grounds all truth in private perception, impersonalism is the philosophical architecture of the faceless crowd. It is the blank concrete of a monolithic housing block, the standardized script of a corporate call center, and the chilling hum of a vast data center processing lives into abstract streams—a world where the anecdote of a single soul is dismissed as statistical noise.
Etymology
From impersonal + -ism.
noun
- A belief system that places little importance on individuals and their subjective viewpoints and experiences.
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