verb
- to make something less personal or individual; to remove personal characteristics or human elements
Usage: formal
Examples
- The new corporate policy tends to impersonalize customer service interactions.
- Modern technology can impersonalize communication between people.
- The hospital’s bureaucratic procedures impersonalize patient care.
- Mass production methods impersonalize the manufacturing process.
- Social media platforms often impersonalize human relationships.
- The company’s restructuring will impersonalize employee evaluations.