'Neutrality' definitions:
Definition of 'neutrality'
From: WordNet
noun
Nonparticipation in a dispute or war
noun
Tolerance attributable to a lack of involvement [syn: disinterest, neutrality]
noun
PH value of 7
Definition of 'Neutrality'
From: GCIDE
- Neutrality \Neu*tral"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. neutralit['e].]
- 1. The state or quality of being neutral; the condition of being unengaged in contests between others; state of taking no part on either side; indifference. [1913 Webster]
- Men who possess a state of neutrality in times of public danger, desert the interest of their fellow subjects. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Indifference in quality; a state neither very good nor bad. [Obs.] --Donne. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Chem.) The quality or state of being neutral. See Neutral, a., 4. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (International Law) The condition of a nation or government which refrains from taking part, directly or indirectly, in a war between other powers. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Those who are neutral; a combination of neutral powers or states. [1913 Webster]
- Armed neutrality, the condition of a neutral power, in time of war, which holds itself ready to resist by force any aggression of either belligerent. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'neutrality'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a wise passiveness,
- abnegation,
- abstinence,
- avoidance,
- avoiding reaction,
- calm,
- calmness,
- chill,
- chilliness,
- circumvention,
- coldness,
- conservatism,
- constraint,
- contemplation,
- contemplative life,
- continence,
- control,
- cool,
- coolness,
- defense mechanism,
- detachment,
- disinterest,
- disinterestedness,
- dispassion,
- dispassionateness,
- do-nothing policy,
- do-nothingism,
- do-nothingness,
- dodge,
- dormancy,
- duck,
- elusion,
- elusiveness,
- equitability,
- equivocation,
- escape,
- evasion,
- evasive action,
- evasiveness,
- evenhandedness,
- evenness,
- fairness,
- fervorlessness,
- forbearance,
- forestalling,
- forestallment,
- frostiness,
- gentleness,
- getting around,
- golden mean,
- halfheartedness,
- happy medium,
- iciness,
- idleness,
- immobility,
- impartiality,
- inaction,
- inactivity,
- indifference,
- indifferentism,
- indifferentness,
- indolence,
- inertia,
- inertness,
- insipidity,
- jink,
- judiciousness,
- juste-milieu,
- justness,
- laissez-aller,
- laissez-faire,
- laissez-faireism,
- Laodiceanism,
- lenity,
- loftiness,
- lukewarmness,
- meden agan,
- meditation,
- middle way,
- mildness,
- moderateness,
- moderation,
- moderationism,
- neuterness,
- neutralism,
- neutralness,
- nonintervention,
- noninvolvement,
- nonparticipation,
- nonresistance,
- nonviolence,
- nonviolent resistance,
- nothing in excess,
- objectivity,
- Olympian detachment,
- pacifism,
- paralysis,
- passive resistance,
- passive self-annihilation,
- passiveness,
- passivism,
- passivity,
- perfunctoriness,
- policy,
- prevention,
- procrastination,
- prudence,
- quiescence,
- quietism,
- refraining,
- repose,
- restraint,
- self-abnegation,
- self-control,
- self-denial,
- self-restraint,
- selflessness,
- serenity,
- shunning,
- shunting off,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- sidetracking,
- slip,
- sobriety,
- stability,
- stagnancy,
- stagnation,
- standpattism,
- stasis,
- steadiness,
- temperance,
- temperateness,
- tepidness,
- the runaround,
- tranquillity,
- unbias,
- unbiasedness,
- unexcessiveness,
- unextravagance,
- unextremeness,
- unopinionatedness,
- unprejudicedness,
- unselfishness,
- vapidity,
- vegetation,
- via media,
- vita contemplativa,
- waiting game,
- watching and waiting,
- zeallessness,
- zigzag
Words containing 'Neutrality'
- Neutral,
- Neutralization,
- Neutralize,
- Neutralized,
- Neutralizer,
- Neutralizing,
- Neutrally,
- neutralism,
- Armed neutrality,
- Neutral axis,
- Neutral equilibrium,
- Neutral salt,
- Neutral surface,
- Neutral tint,
- Neutral vowel,
- Neutral zone,
- idiom neutral,
- impersonal neutral,
- neutral spirits,
- neutralization fire,
- neutralization reaction,
- neutral-colored,
- neutral-coloured