faceless

English

Etymology

From face +‎ -less.

Adjective

faceless (comparative more faceless, superlative most faceless)

1. Having no face.
   • 2015, Cyril Tawney, Grey Funnel Lines:

     These vague, faceless spectres from my ramblesome past have as much right as anyone else to be ranked among the salvors of the Navy's songs.

2. Having or revealing no individual identity or character; anonymous.
   • 2020 October 13, Beatrice Loayza, “Jack London gets an Italian makeover in the tragic and romantic Martin Eden”, in AV Club:

     With assembly line consistency, Martin receives countless rejections from faceless editors—a triggering reminder for any literary hopeful navigating the modern culture industry.

3. Having or revealing no individuality, personality or distinctive .characteristics.

   I started working for a faceless corporation.

   • 1993, Steven G. Kellman, The Plague: Fiction and Resistance, New York, N.Y.: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, page 77:

     The highest official in Oran remains anonymous, referred to merely as "the Prefect." Use of the majusculed generic title instead of a proper name is less suggestive of a faceless tyrant, a Maghreb Big Brother, than of the detached, ineffectual bureaucrat he appears to be at every meeting.

Derived terms

• faceless bureaucrat
• faceless man

Translations

having no face

• Armenian: անդեմ (hy) (andem)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無む臉的／无脸的てき (wúliǎn de), 無む面めん的てき／无面的てき (wúmiàn de)

• Estonian: anonüümne
• Finnish: kasvoton
• German: gesichtslos (de)
• Icelandic: andlitslaus
• Ingrian: liitsatoin
• Italian: anonimo (it)
• Japanese: 顔かおのない (kao no nai)
• Lithuanian: beveidis
• Russian: безли́кий (ru) (bezlíkij)

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• Kyrgyz: ^{(please verify)} бөтөнчөлүгү жок (ky) (bötöncölügü jok), ^{(please verify)} жаксыз (ky) (jaksız), ^{(please verify)} бети жок (ky) (beti jok), ^{(please verify)} өзүнө таандык касиеттери жок (ky) (özünö taandık kasiyetteri jok)
• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} beveidis

lacking individuality

• Polish: bezlicy