neutrality.

1. The state of not favoring a side or position in a dispute or assessment.

2. The status or policy of not participating as a belligerent in an armed conflict.

3. The condition of having no net electrical charge.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• procedural neutrality
• claimed neutrality

On the page

Procedural neutrality was tested against the same rule for both parties.

The report’s claimed neutrality did not remove the need to examine its assumptions.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: institutional and conceptual change, philosophical orientation, qualification of recurrence and degree. Disciplines: academic writing, philosophy, cross-disciplinary analysis. Commonness: moderately common.