Impartiality

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Impartiality \Im*par`ti*al"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. impartialit['e].]
     The quality of being impartial; freedom from bias or
     favoritism; disinterestedness; equitableness; fairness; as,
     impartiality of judgment, of treatment, etc.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           Impartiality strips the mind of prejudice and passion.
                                                    --South.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  impartiality
       n : an inclination to weigh both views or opinions equally [syn:
            {nonpartisanship}] [ant: {partiality}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  78 Moby Thesaurus words for "impartiality":
     Olympian detachment, abnegation, abstention, abstinence,
     anythingarianism, calm, calmness, conservatism, constraint,
     continence, control, cool, cop-out, detachment, disinterest,
     disinterestedness, dispassion, dispassionateness, equitability,
     evasion, evenhandedness, evenness, fairness, fence-sitting,
     gentleness, golden mean, happy medium, independence, indifference,
     judiciousness, juste-milieu, justness, lenity, loftiness,
     meden agan, middle way, mildness, moderateness, moderation,
     moderationism, mugwumpery, mugwumpism, neutralism, neutrality,
     nonalignment, noncommitment, noninvolvement, nonpartisanism,
     nonviolence, nothing in excess, nothingarianism, objectivity,
     pacifism, prudence, repose, restraint, self-abnegation,
     self-control, self-denial, self-restraint, selflessness, serenity,
     sobriety, stability, steadiness, strict neutrality, temperance,
     temperateness, tranquillity, unbias, unbiasedness, unexcessiveness,
     unextravagance, unextremeness, unopinionatedness, unprejudicedness,
     unselfishness, via media