Faceless means without individual character or identity. Faceless bureaucrats, a faceless corporation, faceless and remote.
It is always a criticism and it says the problem is not knowing who decided — a faceless organisation is one nobody can be held to account within. It is a staple of political rhetoric about institutions. Note that -less means without, and that the metaphor is about being unable to look somebody in the eye.
1adjectivefacelessWithout individual character or identity.
“He was tired of working for a faceless corporation that treated him like a number.”
synonyms: anonymous, impersonal
faceless is a quality of anonymity.
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From face + -less. face comes from Middle English face. From Middle English face, from Old French face, from Latin facia, from Latin faciēs (“form, appearance”). a doublet of facies. Displaced native onlete (“face, countenance, appearance”), anleth (“face”), from Old English anwlite, andwlita, compare German Antlitz; Old English ansīen (“face”), Middle English neb (“face, nose”) (from Old English nebb), Middle English leer (“face, cheek, countenance”) (from Old English hlēor), and non-native Middle English vis (“face, appearance, look”) (from Old French vis) and Middle English chere (“face”) from Old French chere. In the sense of face as in reputation, influenced by Chinese 面子 or 臉, both of which mean literally the front of the head and metaphorically one's public image. See lose face.
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