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impersonalism

noun
im·personalism | \(ˈ)im, əm+\

Definition of impersonalism 

1 : impersonality the impersonalism of research in the sciences the trend toward impersonalism in office relations

2 : the policy of being impersonal in relations with other persons or of maintaining impersonal relations among a group

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