Etymology
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From Middle French neutralité, from Medieval Latin neutralitas.
Morphologically neutral + -ity
Pronunciation
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neutrality (usually uncountable, plural neutralities)
- The state or quality of being neutral; the condition of being unengaged in contests between others; state of taking no part on either side.
- Synonyms: indifferent, on the fence
1665, Joseph Glanvill, chapter XXVII, in Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing, and Confident Opinion with a Reply to the Exceptions of the Learned Thomas Albius[1], London: E. Cotes, page 168:And what happineſs is there in a ſtorm of paſſions? On this account the Scepticks affected an indifferent æquipondious neutrality as the only means to their Ataraxia, and freedom from paßionate diſturbances.
1709, Joseph Addison, The Tatler:Men who possess a state of neutrality in times of public danger, desert the interest of their fellow subjects.
1856 June 14, “England and America”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 2, number 33, London: John W. Parker and Son, page 141:The official pretence of a scrupulous solicitude to maintain neutrality is flagrantly insincere.
- (obsolete) Indifference in quality; a state neither very good nor bad.
1611, John Donne, An Anatomy of the World:There is no health; physicians say that we
At best enjoy but a neutrality.
- (chemistry): The quality or state of being neutral.
- (international law) The condition of a nation or government which refrains from taking part, directly or indirectly, in a war between other powers.
- Those who are neutral; a combination of neutral powers or states.
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Translations
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state of being neutral; taking no part on either side
- Afrikaans: neutraliteit
- Albanian: asnjanësi (sq) f, neutralitet (sq) m
- Arabic: حِيَاد m (ḥiyād)
- Armenian: չեզոքություն (hy) (čʻezokʻutʻyun)
- Asturian: neutralidá f
- Azerbaijani: neytrallıq, bitərəflik
- Basque: neutraltasun
- Belarusian: нейтралітэ́т m (njejtralitét), нэўтралітэ́т m (neŭtralitét)
- Bulgarian: неутра́лност (bg) f (neutrálnost)
- Catalan: neutralitat (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 中立 (zh) (zhōnglì)
- Czech: neutralita f
- Danish: neutralitet c
- Dutch: neutraliteit (nl)
- Esperanto: neŭtraleco
- Estonian: neutraliteet
- Finnish: puolueettomuus (fi), neutraliteetti (fi)
- French: neutralité (fr) f
- Galician: neutralidade (gl) f
- Georgian: ნეიტრალიტეტი (neiṭraliṭeṭi)
- German: Neutralität (de) f
- Greek: ουδετερότητα (el) f (oudeterótita)
- Hebrew: ניטרליות f (niutráliyut), אֲדִישׁוּת (he) f (adishút)
- Hindi: तटस्थता f (taṭasthatā)
- Hungarian: semlegesség (hu); közömbösség (hu) (chemistry)
- Icelandic: hlutleysi n
- Indonesian: netral (id)
- Interlingua: neutralitate
- Irish: neodracht f
- Italian: neutralità (it) f (all senses)
- Japanese: 中立 (ja) (ちゅうりつ, chūritsu), 中庸 (ja) (ちゅうよう, chūyō), 中性 (ja) (ちゅうせい, chūsei)
- Kazakh: бейтараптық (beitaraptyq)
- Korean: 중립(中立) (ko) (jungnip)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: bêalîtî (ku) f
- Kyrgyz: бейтараптуулук (beytaraptuuluk)
- Lao: ຄວາມເປັນກາງ (khuām pen kāng)
- Latin: neutralitas f
- Latvian: neitralitāte f
- Lithuanian: neutralitetas m
- Macedonian: неутра́лност f (neutrálnost)
- Malay: berkecuali (ms)
- Nepali: तटस्थता (taṭasthatā)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: nøytralitet (no) f
- Nynorsk: nøytralitet
- Occitan: neutralitat (oc) f
- Persian: بیطرفی (fa) (bi-tarafi), نادرگیری (fa)
- Polish: neutralność (pl) f
- Portuguese: neutralidade (pt) f
- Romanian: neutralitate (ro) f
- Russian: нейтралите́т (ru) m (nejtralitét)
- Sanskrit: तटस्थता (taṭasthatā)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: неутра́лно̄ст f
- Roman: neutrálnōst (sh) f
- Slovak: neutralita f, nestrannosť f
- Slovene: nevtralnost f
- Spanish: neutralidad (es) f
- Swedish: neutralitet (sv) c
- Tagalog: neutralidad
- Tajik: бетарафӣ (betarafī)
- Thai: ความเป็นกลาง (kwaam-bpen-glaang)
- Turkish: tarafsızlık (tr), yansızlık (tr)
- Ukrainian: нейтра́льність f (nejtrálʹnistʹ), нейтраліте́т (uk) m (nejtralitét)
- Uzbek: betaraflik (uz)
- Vietnamese: trung lập (vi) (中立)
- Welsh: amhleidiaeth f, amhleidioldeb m
- Yiddish: נייטראַליטעט (neytralitet)
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chemistry: quality or state of being neutral
international law: condition of a nation or government
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