Impartiality

Definition: Impartiality

Impartiality

Noun

1. An inclination to weigh both views or opinions equally.

Date "impartiality" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1748. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Statistics	An objective and independent manner of producing Community statistics, free from any pressure from political or other interest groups, particularly as regards the selection of techniques, definitions and methodologies best suited to the attainment of the objectives as set out. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonym: Impartiality

Synonym: nonpartisanship (n). (additional references)

Antonym: partiality (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Probity	Fairness; Adjective: fair play, justice, equity, impartiality, principle, even-handedness; grace.
Right	Justice, equity; equitableness; Adjective: propriety; fair play, impartiality, measure for measure, give and take, lex talionis.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Impartiality

English words defined with "impartiality": Disinteressment ♦ Equity of redemption ♦ Impartialness, Indiscrimination ♦ justice of the peace. (references)

Specialty definitions using "impartiality": DEPUTY, COURT. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Impartiality in Context: Grounding Justice in a Pluralist World (Suny Series in Social and Political Thought (Paper)) (reference) Impartiality in Moral and Political Philosophy (reference) Impartiality, Neutrality and Justice (reference) Justice As Impartiality (Oxford Political Theory) (reference) Power, Impartiality and Justice (Avebury Series in Philosophy) (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
George Eliot	Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
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Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	She had received a very recent proof of its impartiality.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Swaziland	In January nine other persons were charged with misconduct for compromising their political impartiality and for violating a government order that prohibited them from attending a November 2000 political meeting in South Africa. (references)
	Hong Kong	RTHK subsequently issued a statement that Tibet was part of China, that the presenter had been quoting the views of others, and admitted that the segment was "lacking in impartiality." RTHK later gave a more complete explanation of the Tibet question and included the PRC stance. (references)
Economic History	Botswana	The recent establishment of an industrial court further enhances and strengthens impartiality in labor disputes. (references)
Human Rights	Burma	Pervasive corruption further serves to undermine the impartiality of the justice system. (references)
	Morocco	The Government continued to implement reforms intended to increase judicial independence and impartiality. (references)
	San Marino	The judicial system requires that the country's lower court judges be noncitizens, with the aim of assuring impartiality; most lower court judges are Italian. (references)
Political Economy	Malaysia	Many observers expressed serious doubts about the independence and impartiality of the judiciary, especially in high-profile cases. (references)
	Malaysia	However, while many observers continued to express doubts about the independence and impartiality of the judiciary, reforms instituted by the new chief justice appear to have led to some improvements in these areas. (references)
	Croatia	Reforms in the courts and prosecutor's offices resulted in some improvements in the impartiality of the judiciary; however, courts convicted persons in mass trials and in trials with weak supporting evidence, particularly in Eastern Slavonia. (references)
Political Rights	Indonesia	The actions of some small party representatives on the General Election Commission (KPU) contributed to a significant delay in validating election results and led to a considerable loss of public faith in the impartiality and integrity of the KPU. (references)
Worker Rights	Uganda	In principle IC rulings are final; however, its decisions have been appealed by employers who claimed that they doubted the impartiality of the Court. (references)
	Uganda	In 2000 the IC President was criticized for the Court's impartiality and subsequently was "promoted" from her post allegedly because of this impartiality; in May the President appointed Constantine Rwaheru as the IC president. (references)
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Speaker	Phrase(s)
Rush Limbaugh	If Lieberman were as honest as we all thought he was before he changed all his opinions to run with Al Gore, and if he were interested in doing his job with impartiality, he'd recuse himself.
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
James Monroe	1817-1825	Our attitude has therefore been that of neutrality between them, which has been maintained by the Government with the strictest impartiality.
Benjamin Harrison	1889-1893	We shall not, however, I am sure, be able to put our civil service upon a nonpartisan basis until we have secured an incumbency that fair-minded men of the opposition will approve for impartiality and integrity.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Impartiality" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Impartiality" is used about 175 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	175	23,506

Language		Translations for "impartiality"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		paanësi (dispassion, equity, fair play, fairness, infinity), objektivitet (objectiveness, objectivity). (various references)

Arabic		‏موضوعية (detachment, objectivity, topicality), ‏نزاهة (disinterest, dispassion, integrity, plain dealing, probity, squareness), ‏تجرد (emptiness, nakedness, peel). (various references)

Bulgarian		непредубеденост (open mindedness), безпристрастност (candidness). (various references)

Chinese		中证. (various references)

Czech		nestrannost (disinterest), nepředpojatost (open mindedness). (various references)

Danish		udøve sine funktioner fuldstændig upartisk og samvittighedsfuldt (to perform one's duties conscientiously and withabsolute impartiality). (various references)

Dutch		zijn ambt volstrekt onpartijdig en geheel naar eer en geweten uitoefenen (to perform one's duties conscientiously and withabsolute impartiality). (various references)

Farsi		بیطرفی (Neutrality). (various references)

Finnish		tasapuolisuus (fairness), puolueettomuus (neutrality). (various references)

French		impartialité, objectivité. (various references)

German		unvoreingenommenheit, Unbefangenheit (unbiasedness, unselfconsciousness), Objektivität (detachment, evenhandedness, objectivity). (various references)

Greek		αμεροληψία (candor, candour, equity, objectivity). (various references)

Hebrew		יחס שו�", אי פ� ות. (various references)

Hungarian		pártatlanság (candor, candour, detachment, fairness, justice, liberality, neutrality), elfogulatlanság (candor, candour, detachment, objectivity, open mindedness, unpretentiousness). (various references)

Italian		imparzialit� (fairness, indifference). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		虚心 , 厳正 (exactness, rigidness, strictness), 平等 (equality, evenness), 公正 (fairness, justice), 公平無私 (fair play), 中正 (fairness), 不偏不党 (independence, neutrality), 不偏 (fairness, neutrality), 一視同人 (universal benevolence, universal brotherhood), 一視同仁 (universal benevolence, universal brotherhood), 一様 (equality, evenness, similarity, uniformity). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きょし�", びょうどう (equality, evenness, the Court), ふへ�"ふとう (independence, neutrality), ふへ�" (constant, eternal, everlasting, fairness, immovable, immutable, indestructible, neutrality, omnipresence, permanent, ubiquity, unchangeable, universality), いっしどうじ�" (universal benevolence, universal brotherhood), いちよう (a boat, a copy, a leaf, a page, equality, evenness, similarity, uniformity), �"うせい (aggression, calibration, composition, constancy, correction, correction of press, fairness, fixed star, future generations, future life, hardness, justice, life to come, loud or high-pitched voice, made of steel, matchless, offensive, organization, posterity, proofreading, public welfare, rebirth, rectification, regeneration, rehabilitation, reorganization, resuscitation, revision, tropism, unparalleled, Welfare Ministry, younger people), �"うへいむし (fair play), �'�"せい (current state, exactness, life, present or actual strength, presentworld, primeval, primitive, rigidness, sound of the strings, spontaneous generation, strictness, the present age), ちゅうせい (fairness, indifference, loyalty, mediaeval times, Middle Ages, neuter gender, neutral, sincerity, sterility). (various references)

Korean		공명� �대. (various references)

Manx		neuvaiaght, neuchleaynys (open-mindedness, unattractiveness), corrymid (justice, par). (various references)

Pig Latin		impartialityay.(various references)

Portuguese		reto (direct, even, fair, honest, just, recto, rectum, righteous, rightful, sincere, single minded, single-eyed, square, straight, straightaway, straightforward, virtuous). (various references)

Romanian		imparţialitate (candor, candour, fair-mindedness), obiectivitate (fairness, liberality, objectiveness, objectivity), nepãrtinire (candor, candour, indifference), justeţe (accuracy, appositeness, equitableness, exactness, fair-mindedness, fairness, justice, justness, righteousness, rightness, rigor, rigour, strictness), dreptate (equitableness, fair-mindedness, fairness, justice, right, righteousness, rightness). (various references)

Russian		беспристрастность (detachment, equity, indifference), беспристрастие (candor, candour, equanimity). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nepristrasnost. (various references)

Spanish		imparcialidad (detachment, evenness, open mindedness). (various references)

Swedish		opartiskhet (candor, candour, detachment, fairness). (various references)

Turkish		tarafsızlık (candor, candour, detachment, equilibrium, equitableness, equity, evenness, fair play, fairness, indifference, neutralism, neutrality, non committal, objectiveness, objectivity, openness). (various references)

Ukranian		справедливість (appropriateness, equality, equity, fairness, justice, justness, orthopraxy, righteousness, rightfulness), безсторонність (candor, candour, detachment, equity, impersonality, neutrality). (various references)

Vietnamese		tính vô tư (disinterestedness, impartialness), tính không thiên vị (impartialness), tính công bằng (equitableness, equity, impartialness). (various references)

Welsh		amhleidiaeth (neutrality). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	aequitas, aequitate, aequitatem, aequitatis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"Impartiality" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: impartiallity, impartialty. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "impartiality" (pronounced i'mpÄ'rshēa"lutē)
10	-p Ä' r sh ē a" l u t ē	partiality.
7	-sh ē a" l u t ē	confidentiality, speciality.
6	-ē a" l u t ē	collegiality, congeniality, extraterritoriality, geniality, materiality, reality, triviality, unreality.
5	-a" l u t ē	abnormality, actuality, banality, bestiality, bisexuality, brutality, causality, centrality, commonality, conditionality, constitutionality, criminality, criticality, cyclicality, dimensionality, duality, eventuality, fatality, finality, formality, frugality, functionality, generality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, hospitality, illegality, immorality, immortality, impersonality, individuality, informality, instrumentality, irrationality, legality, lethality, liberality, locality, mentality, modality, morality, mortality, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, neutrality, normality, originality, personality, plurality, practicality, principality, proportionality, punctuality, rationality, sensuality, sentimentality, sexuality, spirituality, technicality, theatricality, tonality, totality, universality, venality, vitality.
4	-l u t ē	ability, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affordability, agility, amiability, applicability, availability, believability, capability, civility, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, convertibility, credibility, credulity, culpability, debility, deductibility, deniability, dependability, desirability, disability, docility, ductility, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, equality, facility, fallibility, feasibility, fertility, fidelity, flammability, flexibility, fragility, frivolity, futility, gentility, gullibility, hostility, humility, immobility, impossibility, inability, inaccessibility, incivility, incompatibility, incredulity, indestructibility, inequality, inevitability, infallibility, infertility, infidelity, inflexibility, instability, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irresponsibility, irritability, legibility, liability, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, miscibility, mobility, motility, nobility, nonutility, palatability, permeability, plausibility, polity, portability, possibility, predictability, probability, profitability, quality, readability, reliability, respectability, responsibility, seasonality, senility, sensibility, stability, sterility, suitability, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, tranquility, transferability, unavailability, unpredictability, unreliability, utility, variability, versatility, viability, virility, visibility, volatility, vulnerability.
3	-u t ē	absurdity, acidity, activity, acuity, adversity, affinity, aggressivity, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, barbarity, biodiversity, brevity, calamity, capacity, captivity, cavity, celebrity, charity, chastity, clarity, commodity, community, complexity, complicity, conductivity, conformity, congruity, connectivity, continuity, creativity, crotchety, curiosity, deformity, deity, density, depravity, deputy, dexterity, dignity, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, enmity, enormity, entity, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, exclusivity, expressivity, extremity, falsity, familiarity, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, festivity, fluidity, fraternity, generosity, gratuity, gravity, heredity, heterogeneity, hilarity, homogeneity, humanity, humidity, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illiquidity, immaturity, immunity, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inactivity, incapacity, incongruity, indemnity, indignity, inequity, inferiority, infinity, infirmity, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, insularity, integrity, intensity, irregularity, laity, laxity, levity, liquidity, lividity, longevity, majority, masculinity, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, minority, modernity, monstrosity, morbidity, multiplicity, nativity, necessity, negativity, Nonconformity, nonentity, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, overcapacity, oversensitivity, parity, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, perpetuity, perplexity, perversity, piety, polarity, pomposity, popularity, posterity, priority, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, purity, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, reactivity, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, religiosity, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, security, selectivity, seniority, sensitivity, serendipity, serenity, severity, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, specificity, spontaneity, stupidity, subjectivity, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, temerity, tenacity, timidity, toxicity, Trinity, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, university, unpopularity, uppity, validity, vanity, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, veracity, Verity, vicinity, virginity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity, vulgarity.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-i-i-i-l-m-p-r-t-t-y"
	-2 letters: partiality.
	-3 letters: impartial, militaria, primality, primatial.
	-4 letters: imparity, limitary, miliaria, military, primatal.
	-5 letters: airmail, airplay, marital, martial, miliary, militia, palmary, palmyra, partial, partita, rattail, tilapia, trymata.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-i-i-i-l-m-p-r-t-t-y"
	+2 letters: impracticality.
	+4 letters: impracticability.
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